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Constable in Paris. (Report from Europe).(exhibit Constable: Le choix de Lucian Freud )
The last time John Constable exhibited his work in Paris was at the Salon of 1824, when his large painting The Hay Wain (illustrated on p. 62) so impressed Eugene Delacroix that he reworked parts of his own Massacres at Chios (Musee du Louvre, Paris). As part of a major exhibition of Constable's work at the Grand Palais in Paris from October 10 until January 13, 2003, The Hay Wain will again be on display, along with view on the Stour near Dedham, which was exhibited with it in 1824.
The pictures for the show, which is entitled Constable--Le choix de Lucian Freud, have been selected by Lucian Freud with the assistance of one French and three British art historians. Yet the vision of the show is unmistakably Freud's. Constable was and is best known as a landscape painter. However, Freud makes a point of ...
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Among Lucian Freud's earliest works, from the 1940s...external world psychically," then Lucian Freud seems obsessed with doing so materially...perhaps why "Big Sue" and many of Lucian Freud's other models are often shown supine...
