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National Portrait Gallery to hold major Freud show including last work

ByGramilano 20 September 201120 September 2011 Reading Time: 1 minute

London’s National Portrait Gallery will stage a major Lucian Freud exhibition next spring which the artist collaborated on up until his death in July.”Lucian Freud Portraits” runs from February 9 to May 27, 2012, and among the exhibits will be Freuds final work “Portrait of the Hound 2011”.

Curator Sarah Howgate said the unfinished painting, depicting Freuds studio assistant and friend David Dawson and his dog Eli, had been left in the artists studio after he died aged 88.Howgate told reporters on Tuesday that the gallery had approached Freud, one of the titans of contemporary art whose works fetched millions, and proposed staging a show during Olympic year in London.

via Reuters

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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.