"Lucian Freud's exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 1993, followed by those at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid celebrated his position, as Bruce Bernard describes, as 'one of the great portrait painters of all time - of people of all ages and both sexes, clothed and unclothed'. Since his early recognition while still a boy in London, Freud's reputation has soared for fifty years. Now in his seventies, his output has not diminished." "Lucian Freud is the definitive book of this great painter. It draws together many unknown and unpublished early works and reproduces all the later masterpieces from the now vanished early portrait of Francis Bacon to recent huge nudes of the late Leigh Bowery. Bruce Bernard, the author of the introductory essay, has know Freud since 1943. His knowledge of the artist and his work is unparalleled."--Jacket.