LUCIAN FREUD/ MONUMENTAL

Curated by the artist s longtime studio assistant and friend, David Dawson, this important volume features twenty major and rarely s een paintings by L. Freud. The book begins with works from 1990, when Freud began painting the performance artist Leigh Bowery: thes e large-scale portraits of Bowery ushered in a new sense of monumentality in the artist s oeuvre. Inspired by Bowery s impressive ph ysique, Freud began working on a larger scale, which emphasized the physical presence of his subjects.