Update

[poliphilo]

The Lucian Freud portrait of Francis Bacon sold for £5.4 million- well under its asking price. That's still a hell of a lot of money.

Comments

or you could pick up an ancient temple

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

For a sum closer to the asking price of that painting, I'd rather buy this:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=97978

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Wait, I missed a zero...the temple is much cheaper!

Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too.

(Though it amazes me an archaeological site of such importance should be for sale on the open market).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah right, well put me down for ten of them, then...

Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Looks like the Bulgarian government is protesting its private sale, and the town of Balchik is trying to get the funds together to buy it before a private investor does.

[(Anonymous)]

I find his paintings of women difficult...he has painted his daughter in this 'porn' way as you say and I find that transgressive (is that the word I mean?) It has a taint about it, abuse of power, incestuousness, paedophilic????
As you say, he can't draw and they are heavily impastoed where he overworks them. Not a tiny patch on Rembrandt, but he has contacts, as you say...
Jenny

Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Which is exactly what should happen.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He gives everyone much the same treatment- and his pictures of men are as uncompromising as those of women, and often foreground flaccid penises. I agree that there's something a bit "naff" about painting your daughter in the nude.

I think he's a good, minor artist, I like a lot of what he does, I just reckon his prices are too high.

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

i'm working up a good reply. it's been so long since i was an art history student. my critical analysis skills are rusty. but it's fun, and i've been meaning to write about lucian freud since you asked. more coming soon.

i also love francis bacon. (although i do agree that the portrait that sold looks like a moldy pear). perhaps moreso than freud. i'll get to that, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I don't particularly like Bacon, but I think he's a greater and more challenging artist than Freud.