Prize

• Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2022,
  in the Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book category

 

Reviews

‘The book is a sumptuous production … a fitting testament to Freud’s contribution to print
and an excellent scholarly resource’ – Paul Coldwell, Print Quarterly, vol. XL, no. 2, June 2023

 

‘Treves’s catalogue raisonné of the prints provides invaluable information about all of this,
and offers clues to much more. In publishing every print, in every state, Treves allows us
to see Freud’s working methods in a way that would never be possible with the paintings’ ​–
Gaby Wood, London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 11, 1 June 2023

 

‘Publisher and authors have done admirably by one of Britain’s most distinguished artists
with this impeccable, rigorous and beautiful book’ –
Alexander Adams, The British Art Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, autumn 2022
 

Summary

• The book records in one volume for the first time every print Freud made – from the first linocut of 1936 to his last etching published in 2007. The first volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné focuses on the artist’s prints. 

• The art historian Toby Treves’s catalogue entries are informed by his knowledge of the wider oeuvre as a former collections curator of twentieth-century British Art at Tate and co-author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Lucian Freud’s paintings.

• An essay by the critic and Freud specialist Sebastian Smee, and an account of working with Freud by his main printmaker, Marc Balakjian, provide further insights.