As a result, these photographs provide a rare glimpse of portrait sittings, studio visits and paintings in progress.ĭavid's photographs have been exhibited at museums across the world, including The National Portrait Gallery, London Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas and Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. He was in daily contact with Freud and was closer than anyone to the daily goings on in the studio.

The photographs of Freud by Dawson offer a fascinating insight into a master painter at work. After leaving the Royal College of Art he became an assistant to the artist Lucian Freud in 1991, whilst working for Freuds art dealer at the time James. He studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Dawson also modelled for Freud on numerous occasions including Sunny Morning, Eight Legs, 1997 and David and Eli, 2003. He was Freud's assistant for over two decades and during that time has photographed the artist exclusively. Co-authored by David Dawson, Freuds longstanding personal assistant and now Director of the Lucian Freud Archive, and Martin Gayford, author, critic, and. Please contact Rosalie Savory for further informationĭavid Dawson is a painter and met Lucian Freud when he was working part-time for his then dealer, James Kirkman, in the late 1980s.

Lucian Freud by David Dawson