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Arts & Culture > Kate Gets Fleshy Look at Freud's Paintings
 

Kate Gets Fleshy Look at Freud's Paintings




Okay!  Here's my question.  How much would you pay for this portrait?  I'll help you out.  It was painted by Lucien Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, who is considered the leading portraiture painter in England and whose paintings are currently  
on exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in London where Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, got an early look a couple of nights ago when she arrived for her first solo appearance to view it along with other nudes by Freud./>

The subject, Sue Tilley, has posed a number of times for Freud. The 250-pound job-center worker is the subject of several nudes, including Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which sold at auction in 2008 for $33.6 million, a record for a living artist.
According to an article in USA Today, the new royal star, Kate Middleton, officially now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge since marrying Prince William, arrived to a crowd of paparazzi and royal watchers at the National Portrait Gallery in London for the sneak peak (no pun intended) of Lucian Freud: Portraits , which features 100 of Freud's most important portraits over 70 years, including the one he was painting when he died in July 2011.

The duchess majored in art history in college and was without William, who is in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic for a six-week tour fulfilling his duties as an RAF helicopter search-and-rescue pilot.

She also had the rather dubious pleasure of speaking with Sue Tilley, who was at the gallery for the express purpose of hoping to meet Catherine..

Gallery director Sandy Nairne told London's Evening Standard that the museum is thrilled to have the duchess as patron. "She came to see us last September when she was deciding which organizations to support. She was fizzing with intelligent questions," Nairne said.

Since Katherine has now given her stamp of approval to Freud's nudes, look for this painting to top even the previous sale.

Wonder what Gramps would have had to say about his grandson's penchant for painting nudes...fat ones at that!

All I can say is that there's no explaining art...nor taste!

https://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/02/duchess-kate-samples-fleshy-delights-of-lucian-freud/1

 


 




posted on Feb 10, 2012 6:59 AM ()

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Oh I want one of them painted of me! I could stick it on the fridge. Put me off eating forever.
comment by tracy on Feb 11, 2012 3:25 PM ()
Just cut out this one and put it on the fridge. It should be incentive enough for anyone!!
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 5:44 PM ()
He deglamourizes her to the nth degree. I like Rubin's art and the voluptuous women in Renoir's but they are pink and appealing unlike the muddy flesh tones here. I think he is a woman hater but you can't fault
his talent.
comment by elderjane on Feb 11, 2012 7:10 AM ()
Talent he has, but I agree. He is definitely degrading women with these type paintings.
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 5:44 PM ()
"She was fizzing with intelligent questions." I can't imagine what they may be!
comment by solitaire on Feb 11, 2012 6:50 AM ()
I'm assuming they related to art.
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 5:45 PM ()
This is an excellent painting of the gross ... reminds me of the fellow who had a canvas in the Brooklyn museum using feces as his paint medium. Can't fault the rendition, but, also, he over grossed it. Her photo shows her in a much more appealing guise. I would hazard a guess that Freud's sexual life was complicated and also suggest that in not glamorizing the model whatsoever that he really was "getting back" at some heavy woman in his past who had total control over him, his mother, perhaps.
comment by tealstar on Feb 11, 2012 6:26 AM ()
H-m-m! Sounds like something Sigmund might have said if he viewed the painting without knowing who painted it. But an interesting theory, nonetheless.
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 6:29 AM ()
If Lucian were not related to Sigmund and if Kate hadn't put her seal of approval on it (What was she thinking!) the painting would be close to worthless. I know what I like and that ain't it.
comment by nittineedles on Feb 10, 2012 3:13 PM ()
Actually, one of his paintings of this same woman sold for nearly $35 million in 2008. I don't understand it either.
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 6:21 AM ()
comment by marta on Feb 10, 2012 12:08 PM ()
That pretty much says it all!
reply by redimpala on Feb 11, 2012 6:21 AM ()
well I told you on face book and the picture looks different there and looked at it for awhile and awhile and said to myself.Well it is really not all that bad.I change my tune and find this interesting.You have to look at it and study it.That what I did.I am not saying that is is wonderful but interesting.Okay,lambasted me.No problems.
comment by fredo on Feb 10, 2012 9:54 AM ()
It is "interesting." The actual detail on it is amazing. I still don't think it is worth millions, however.
reply by redimpala on Feb 10, 2012 10:53 AM ()
I liked the couch.The rest well you know where this goes.In the trash can.That is so gross.
Maybe she want to remind herself about not putting on weight.
Guess the Jenny program did not work for her.
this is a first for me on Freud nudes?
comment by fredo on Feb 10, 2012 9:38 AM ()
He actually has done several with this model. I don't exactly know why.
reply by redimpala on Feb 10, 2012 10:53 AM ()
i think i like jondude's paintings better!
comment by elkhound on Feb 10, 2012 8:03 AM ()
I'll second that, Mary!!
reply by redimpala on Feb 10, 2012 9:24 AM ()
My daDDy sez Thank yew.
reply by hobbie on Feb 10, 2012 9:20 AM ()
And you didn't like Reuban's paintings?!?!?!?!?
comment by greatmartin on Feb 10, 2012 7:40 AM ()
I see his talent in the detail. I'll just leave it at that!
reply by redimpala on Feb 10, 2012 9:24 AM ()
Just goes to show that artsy-fartsy types are complete idiots and they all walk around telling each other how wonderful their work is.
comment by eddie on Feb 10, 2012 7:11 AM ()
Thank you for the compliment, Ed.
reply by hobbie on Feb 10, 2012 9:20 AM ()
For once, we are in total agreement, Eddie!
reply by redimpala on Feb 10, 2012 7:31 AM ()

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