Eli

c. 1986 – 2011

Etchings at Studio Prints

In the last 25 years of his life Freud made etchings with advice from the Armenian-born artist and printer Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints in Kentish Town, London; 143 of these prints are in the V&A's collection.

29 September 2000 – 4 March 2001

Retrospective at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

Freud prepared the exhibition “Naked Portraits” in personal dialogue with curator Rolf Lauter — the only project he authorised in direct cooperation with a German museum. All its prints bore his Sleeping by the Lion Carpet (1995–96), showing the nude Sue Tilley.

2001

Lives with the journalist Emily Bearn

In 2001 Freud began living with the 27-year-old journalist Emily Bearn; later, at 82, his lover was the 32-year-old art student Alexandra Williams-Wynn.

2002

Retrospective at Tate Britain

Lucian Freud's retrospective at Tate Britain in London drew a great response.

2002

Constable exhibition chosen by Freud at the Grand Palais

The Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux presented a Constable exhibition chosen by Lucian Freud at the Grand Palais in Paris — one great English painter introducing another to the French public.

2004

Exhibition at the Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection in London showed Freud's work, which Robert Hughes reviewed in The Guardian as “The Master at work”. No contemporary artist had been exhibited in those rooms before him.