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Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach
Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach
Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach

Artist (Storbritannien, 1909 - 1992)
Alternate Title
  • Dubbelporträtt av Lucian Freud och Frank Auerbach
Date1964
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 165 × 287 cm Ram: 176 × 303,5 × 9,5 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchase 1967 (The Museum of Our Wishes)
On view
Stockholm
Object NumberNM 6066
About the artwork

The artists depicted in this double portrait – Lucian Freud to the left and Frank Auerbach to the right – Francis Bacon had met at the Colony Room, a club in London. They are half-reclining, each in a chaise longue, with their lower bodies exposed. In an armchair facing Auerbach, another figure is partially visible – perhaps Bacon himself. Although the models were his close friends, Bacon preferred to paint their portraits from photographs. He collected reproductions of masterpieces, along with photographs and medical encyclopaedias.  Together with classics from cinematic history and childhood memories, this image bank was essential to his artistic practice.


Selected exhibition history Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm Francis Bacon. Målningar 1945-64 (1965) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sår:mellan demokrati och förlösning i samtida konst (1998) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Wounds : image : between democracy and redemption in contemporary art : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm 14/2 - 19/4 1998]Wounds : text : between democracy and redemption in contemporary art : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm 14/2 - 19/4 1998]Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]Francis Bacon : målningar 1945 - 1964 : Moderna Museet 27 februari - 4 april 1965