Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves 

with Katie Barkes and Olivia Patteson-Knight
Lucian Freud:
Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings​

Modern Art Press, 2025

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Reviews

‘This catalogue raisonné, with its near-faultless execution of forensic scrutiny, is the closest look we may ever get at this most controversial, and most brilliant, of post-war British painters’ – 
Matthew Holman, Art Newspaper, 1 April 2025

 

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025
‘As marvellous and relentless in scrutinising the paintings as he was in making them:
acute, nuanced, formidable, pleasurable’ –
Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times, 22/23 November 2025

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‘The years of research and dedicated scholarship that have gone into this catalogue will ensure its value for future Freud studies’ – Sarah Whitfield, The Burlington Magazine

 

Summary

• A record of all of Lucian Freud’s oil paintings – more than 500, almost all reproduced in colour –
  in four volumes. 

• Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves draw on their research and knowledge of Freud’s oeuvre to provide new analysis of the paintings.

• Separate entries on each work provide essential information, provenance, and history of exhibitions and literature, followed by individual commentaries.

• The catalogue contains essays by three distinguished contributors, the critic and Freud specialist Sebastian Smee, the National Portrait Gallery research fellow Jacob Simon, and the curator and art historian Colin Wiggins.

• A chronology of Freud’s life and work, comprehensive lists of solo and group exhibitions, and a bibliography provide a full overview of Freud’s career and critical responses to it, making this catalogue raisonné indispensable for research.