LUCIAN FREUD: PORTRAITS

First edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original grey boards with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, clean and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears.

Issued in simultaneously in paperback and hardcover. This book presents over 130 of Freud's paintings, drawings and etchings, selected in close collaboration with the artist and drawn from public and private collections around the world. It features illuminating essays by Sarah Howgate and Michael Auping (including a series of unpublished interviews conducted between May 2009 and January 2011), an illustrated chronology of the artist's life and career, and a revealing piece by Freud's life-long friend, the art historian and biographer of Picasso, John Richardson.