Lucian Freud in the Studio
Past display archive
30 March - 1 August 2004
Room 40
Free
Supported by Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
David Hockney; Lucian Freud
by David Dawson
2002
NPG P1001
During his mornings at Freud's studio, Dawson has photographed the daily goings-on. The 17 remarkable images in this display include Hockney sitting for Freud; Freud painting his grandson Albie; Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles posing; and Freud painting a grey gelding. Dawson also captures some of the few visitors to Freud's studio including artist Frank Auerbach and British Museum Director Neil MacGregor.
David Dawson is a painter and met Freud when he was working part-time for his then dealer, James Kirkman, in the late 1980s. He has been Freud's assistant for 12 years. Dawson has also modelled for Freud, including for the painting Sunny Morning - Eight Legs. He will be exhibiting in a painting show at Marlborough Fine Art in the autumn. He studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art.
The opening of this display coincides with Lucian Freud: Latest Paintings at the Wallace Collection, London (31 March - 18 April 2004) and Lucian Freud: The Complete Graphics at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (3 April - 13 June 2004).
'Early morning visit from Neil MacGregor' (Lucian Freud; Neil MacGregor)
by David Dawson
2002
NPG x126310
'Albie sitting for his grandfather' (Lucian Freud; Albie Morrissey)
by David Dawson
2004
NPG x126316
'At Dinner' (Frank Auerbach; Lucian Freud; David Hockney)
by David Dawson
2002
NPG x126307