Evening in the studio
| Evening in the studio |
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| Lucian Freud , 1993 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 200 × 169 cm |
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Evening in the Studio is a painting by Lucian Freud from 1993.
It is the first picture in a series of four nudes that were created between 1993 and 1996 in Freud's London studio about a year apart. Sue Tilley was always the model for the pictures .
The contact between Sue Tilley and Freud was established by Leigh Bowery , who was friends with Freud and who also sat as a model for him several times. Bowery had met Sue Tilley, who had a job in a London employment agency, in the London nightclub "Taboo". Freud convinced Sue Tilley, who then weighed around 125 kilograms, to make herself available to him as a model for several years. The meetings, which usually took place on weekends towards the evening and lasted several hours, dragged on for around nine months.
The painting was completed in November 1993 and was brought straight from his London studio to New York to be shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Lucian Freud: Recent Works exhibition , which opened on December 16, 1993.
description
In one room a naked sleeping woman is lying on the floor board across the bed. The body is turned slightly towards the viewer, who is looking at the scene from above, so that the head, the huge breasts, the stomach and the sex between their spread heavy thighs are relentlessly presented to the viewer. Her long black hair curls around her head like the head of a Medusa .
A woman in black and white with her hair loose is sitting in an armchair next to the bed. She appears to be working on a blanket embroidered with a floral pattern that flows down her lap to the floor. A dog is curled up sleeping on the metal bed with a striped mattress, white bedding and a gray blanket. The background of the picture is a gray, yellow and ocher mottled wall with a section of a window, from which daylight falls into the room.
Bright light falls on the woman's body from the front and occasionally causes white reflections on the masses of meat. The woman's body is accentuated in many places with red color accents - dots, small spots and lines - so that the viewer's gaze is repeatedly drawn back to these places: nipples, breasts, the inner thighs, the feet - they are on these Wise separated from the whitish-yellowish parts of the flesh and highlighted.
literature
- Lucian Freud Naked Portraits . Exhibition catalog Museum of Modern Art . Frankfurt am Main, Hatje, Cantz 2001. pp. 118-120. ISBN 3-7757-9043-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christie's Sale 3740 Lot 31 B , accessed August 22, 2015.
- ↑ Christie's Sale 3740 Lot 31 B , accessed August 22, 2015.
- ↑ Carol Vogel: Lucian Freud Work As a Late Arrival In: The New York Times. February 7, 1994, accessed August 16, 2015.