Film Season: Jake Auerbach on Lucian Freud Portraits

Lucian Freud
by Francis Goodman
circa 1942
NPG x87290

‘A beautiful and telling film but disturbing too’ The Guardian

Director Jake Auerbach introduces this special screening, giving an insight in to the making of this insightful documentary.

Lucian Freud had always been at pains to preserve his privacy. As his fame increased, he became the object of endless and generally inaccurate press interest. This film aims to give an analysis of the artist as seen through the eyes of those who have been best placed to study him; his sitters.

Over a period of two years Jake Auerbach and Freud’s biographer, William Feaver, filmed many of Freud’s subjects. The film includes candid interviews with fellow painters David Hockney and Celia Paul, the late Duke of Devonshire and the now Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, friends such as Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, ex-lovers, daughters and grand-daughters.

Unprecedented, intimate and revealing, the film weaves these interviews with a large selection of work by one of the great artists of our century

Also showing in the Freud on Film season –

• 2 March, Inside Job
• 16 March, The Legend of Leigh Bowery
• 11 May, Lucian Freud

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