Man with a blue scarf on sitting for a portrait by lucian freud english edition ebook gayford martin amazonde kindle shop wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung . For the painting itself is what matters youre here freud tells his sitter to help it and so he does helping it to become a painting of an anonymous man in a blue scarf another lucian. Gayford describes freud in the studio dancing forward and back between sitter and easel a painters rag hanging from his belt muttering constantly and thinking intensely between each brushstroke. Lucian freud perhaps the worlds leading portrait painter spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic martin gayford gayford describes the process chronologically from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of. British art critic martin gayford has written of his posing for the late painter lucian freud in his book man with a blue scarf both gayfords writing and the freud paintings as well as others referred to in the text are brilliant