IT IS WITH PRIDE and pleasure that UBS Warburg continues its support of contemporary art at Tate with the sponsorship of this exhibition of the work of Lucian Freud at Tate Britain.

A retrospective of such a long and prolific career offers us a perspective on an artist whose work has transcended fashion and who has built up a formidable reputation as one of the most important contemporary figurative painters.

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Now in his eightieth year, Lucian Freud is widely regarded as one of the greatest living painters. Over six decades, he has redefined portraiture and the nude producing works of extraordinary vitality and presence. His subjects are often friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, and children. "I paint people", he has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be".

Born in Berlin in 1922, Freud came to England with his family in 1933. Along-with his friend Francis Bacon he rose to prominence in London in the 1950s.He has lived and worked in the city ever since.

Published to accompany the largest retrospective of Freud"s work to date, which travels from Tate Britain in London to Fundaci6 "la Caixa" in Barcelona and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angdes, this lavishly illustrated book brings together key works from his entire career, including over 18o paintings, etchings and drawings, some not previously published.

Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the book includes an essay by the writer and curator William Feaver, a contribution by the painter Frank Auerbach, and a detailed bibliography.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Lucian Freud: Life into Art

William Feaver

On Lucian Freud

Frank Auerbach

CATALOGUE

List of Exhibited Works

Chronology

Bibliography