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Lucian Freud Biography It is extremely rare to be living in the time of a historically great artist, as the standard measure for artistic fame is generally connected to an artist's death or demise. With Lucian Freud, however, we have one of the greatest painters of all time alive and well, living, in a sense, a dual existence. His first existence is that of the retrospective, with exhibitions continually exploring his life's work as a delimited body, art as art, removed from life. The second is that of vibrancy and celebrity, with Freud's each and every move documented, explored, and publicized. In other words, his life epitomizes both stasis and movement, a concept central to Freud's complex struggle with the ultimate portrayal of human flesh. Lucian Freud was born in Berlin on December 8, 1922. Ernst, his father, was an architect and the youngest son of the esteemed Sigmund Freud, one...

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