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Life above Everything was a major exhibition at IMMA , Dublin, that brOUGHT together the work of two acknowledged masters, Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats.
"Published on the occasion of the launch of Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats, IMMA Collection: Freud Project 2016-2021, 28 June 2019-19 January 2020"
Exploring the affinities and interconnections between these two artists, this exhibition draws the work of these two stubbornly individual painters into dialogue, placing them side-by-side for the first time in 70 years. While Lucian Freud's work has been exhibited in the past in group exhibitions alongside other artists from the 'School of London', Life above Everything is one of the few exhibitions to date in which Freud has been shown with a single other artist. Freud's interest in Yeats is little discussed, but he had a lifelong interest in the Irish painter's work, holding a deep admiration for its force and energy.
He did not cite Yeats as an 'influence' but instead seems to have felt a common purpose with his originality and independence, his continuous searching observation, and his sense of the connection between painting and life. A pen and ink drawing by Yeats, The Dancing Stevedores (c.1900), hung beside Freud's bed for over 20 years.
''Life Above Everything will include a substantial number of oil paintings by both artists, 33 by Freud and 24 by Yeats, as well as a range of works on paper, sourced from public and private collections internationally. There are five new loans of work by Freud to the IMMA Collection: Freud Project including important early works such as Girl with Roses (1947-48), Girl with Beret (1951) and Boat, Connemara (1951). Significant loans of works by Yeats include The Bus by the River (1927), People in a Street (c.1935), A Dancer (Rosses Point, Sligo) (1921), as well as From the Tram Top (c. 1925), which features one of Yeats's rare cameos in his own work. Unique to this exhibition was the inclusion of seven paintings by Jack B. Yeats which Freud selected for a close friend, advising him on works to acquire at auction or through the relevant gallery. We are delighted to be able to present these seven paintings, 'approved' by Freud, as a special grouping of Yeats's works within this exhibition. --IMMA website''
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Table of Contents:
IMMA foreword /Annie Fletcher
Christie's foreword /Alice de Roquemaurel, Katharine Arnold
Preface /Hilary Pyle
Selective affinities: an introduction to Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats /Christine Kennedy
Yeats through Freud's eyes
In conversation /David Dawson, William Feaver, Christina Kennedy
Lucian Freud in Dublin, Jack B. Yeats in London /Nathan O'Donnell
Circa 1950: Lucian Freud at the Hanover Gallery /James Finch
Dancing stevedores: Jack B. Yeats and painting in the age of mechanical reproduction /Róisin Kennedy
For love of paint: surface and light /Eithne Jordan
Artists' biographies
Exhibited works and image credits
