Cancelled Wednesday 6 November 2019 6.30 - 7.The auction ended at the price of GBP 1,500 ( 1,741), which exactly corresponded to the upper end of the estimated price range of GBP 1,000 - 1,500. The talk will be accompanied by speech to text transcription courtesy of Stagetext. The work Lucian Freud and Kate Moss by David Dawson was sold in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction auction at Christies in London in March 2019. The artist insisted he did not paint Standing Male Nude, but three specialists have. His figurative paintings offer an unabashed view of his subjects, which included friends, family members and lovers, and are visceral and revealing while intuitively respectful. Lucian Freud painting denied by artist is authenticated by experts. This event will be chaired by Tim Marlow, the RA’s Artistic Director. Lucian Freud was one of the most influential portrait artists of the 20th century. At this talk, she reflects on her relationship to self-portraiture and the effect it has had on her career, while Dawson offers insight into Freud’s approach to the theme and its role in his development as a painter. Saville, like Freud, is known for her visceral, large-scale canvases depicting the human body. Join us for a special in-conversation with co-curator of the exhibition, David Dawson, and contemporary painter Jenny Saville RA. Spanning nearly seven decades, Freud’s paintings in Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits trace the evolution from the linear graphic works of his early career to the fleshier, painterly style he became synonymous with.

Join us for an in-conversation on self-portraiture between contemporary artist Jenny Saville RA and long-standing assistant to Lucian Freud, David Dawson.

Lucian Freud by David Dawson