Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits

Lucian Freud's arresting self-portraits provide an insight into the enigmatic artist's psyche and document his developing style and this book reproduces all of Freud's self-portraits

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's self-portraits give us a...