1922 Born December, in Berlin
1933 Came to Britain
1939 Naturalised British subject
1938-39 Studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London
1939-42 East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Deham
1942-43 Part-time study at Goldsmith's College, London
1946-47 Painted in Paris and Greece
1951 Arts Council Prize, Festival of Britain
1953-54 Vistor, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1983 Created a Companion of Honour

Lives in London

SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS
1944
Levfevre Gallery, London (with Felix Kelly and Julian Trevelyan)

1946
Lefevre Gallery, London (with Ben Nicholson,
Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon,
Robert Colquhoun, John Craxton,
Robert MacBryde and Julian Trevelyan)

1947
The London Gallery (with John Craxton)

1948
The London Gallery (with James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, John Pemberton, Cawthra Mulock)

1950
Hanover Gallery, London (with Roger Viellard)

1952
Hanover Gallery, London (with Martin Froy)

1954
British Pavilion XXVII Venice Biennale (with Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon)

1958
Marlborough Fine Art, London

1963
Marlborough Fine Art, London

1968
Marlborough Fine Art, London

1972
Anthony d'Offay, London
Gray Art Gallery, Hartlepool

1974
Retrospective exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain;
Hayward Gallery, London; Bristol City Art Gallery;
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery;
Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery
'Pages from a sketchbook of 1941', Anthony d'Offay, London

1978
Anthony d'Offay, London

1979
David & Long Co., New York Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

1982
Anthony d'Offay, London

1983
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Bernard Jacobson, London

1984
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
(with Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Leon Kossoff)
'Lucian Freud, A Painting and Etchings',
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

1987-88
'Lucian Freud Paintings',
Retrospective exhibition organised by the
British Council; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonain Institution, Washington DC; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris;
Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London;
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1988
'Lucian Freud Etchings, 1982-88', Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney

1988-89
'Lucian Freud, Works on Paper', organised by the
Arts Council of Great Britain,
The South Bank Centre: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull;
Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool;
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter;
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California;
Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco;
Minneapolis Institute of Art;
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio;
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

1989
'Lucian Freud, Paintings 1947-1987',
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
'Lucian Freud, Early Works', The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

1990
'Lucian Freud, l'oeuvre gravé', catalogue by Michael Peppiatt,
Galerie Berggruen, Paris; Saatchi Collection,
London (with Frank Auerbach and Richard Deacon).

1991
'Lucian Freud, Etchings 1946-90', Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo;
'Lucian Freud, The Complete Etchings 1946-1991',
Thomas Gibson, London, catalogue by Craig Hartley.

1991-92
'Lucian Freud, Paintings and Works on Paper 1940-1991',
catalogue by Bruno Mantura and Angus Cook,
organised by The British Council: Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome;
Castello Sforzesca, Milan; Tate Gallery, Liverpool;
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts;
Otani Memorial Museum, Nishinomiya; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo.

1992
'Lucian Freud, The Complete Etchings: 1946-1992', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York.

1992-93
'Lucian Freud', catalogue by William Feaver, organised by the British Council;
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.

1993-94
'Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings', Mathew Marks Gallery, New York;
'Lucian Freud: Recent Work', catalogue by Catherine Lampert, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

1994-5
'Lucian Freud at Dulwich Art Gallery'.

1995
'Lucian Freud, Etchings 1946-1995', Marlborough Graphics Ltd., London.

1996
'Lucian Freud, A Selection of Etchings,1948-1995',
Marlborough Graphics, New York;
'Lucian Freud, A Selection: Paintings and Works on Paper', Davis and Langsdale, New York;
'Lucian Freud, Paintings and Etchings', catalogue by William Feaver,
Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal.

2000
'Lucian Freud Recent Work', Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc. New York.

2000
'Lucian Freud', Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Ausralia, Perth

Canada
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Germany
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Great Britain
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool
University of Liverpool
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Sigmond Freud Museum, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
The British Council, London
British Museum, London
Government Art Collection
Royal College of Art, London
Saatchi Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Rochdale Art Gallery
Rubgy Museum
Swindon Art Gallery
Manchester City Art Galleries
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
City of Southhampton Art Gallery
Walsall Art Gallery

Mexico
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

South Africa
National Gallery, Cape Town

Spain
Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Switzerland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano

USA
Arkansas Art Centre
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
The Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York Public Library
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Saint Louis Art Museum
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.