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"tombstone": "Portrait of Ib, 1977\u201378. Lucian Freud (British, 1922\u20132011). Oil on canvas; framed: 63 x 53 x 7 cm (24 13/16 x 20 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1979.15",
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"title": "Portrait of Ib",
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"measurements": "Framed: 63 x 53 x 7 cm (24 13/16 x 20 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.)",
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"id": 304412,
"title": "Year in Review: 1979",
"description": "Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).",
"opening_date": "1980-02-13T05:00:00"
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"id": 309658,
"title": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual",
"description": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).",
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"description": "\"British Figurative Painting Today,\" Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn. (Oct. 14, 1981 - Jan. 3, 1982), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif. (Jan. 29 - Mar. 28, 1982).",
"opening_date": "1982-01-29T00:00:00"
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"description": "\"Lucien Freud,\" Anthony d'Offay, Ltd., London (Oct. 12 - Nov. 5, 1982).",
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"description": "[James H. Kirkman, London; through Anthony d'Offay, London/Davis & Long, NY]",
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"did_you_know": "Freud was the grandson of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.",
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"description": "One of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century, Lucian Freud combines traditional rendering of the nude figure with modern expressiveness of paint on canvas. Though the artist has always focused on intimate portraits of family and friends, they are rendered with meticulous and sometimes unforgiving detail. This painting depicts Freud\u2019s daughter Isobel as a teenager. For Freud, \"the paint is the person,\" evidenced here in his liberal use of rich impasto.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1979.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 56, p. 80; Mentioned: p. 61",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cNew Paintings by Four Artists from Britain.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 10 (December 1982): 311\u2013323.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 313-315, fig. 7",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159795"
},
{
"citation": "Lampert, Catherine, Lucian Freud, Toby Treves, Katie Barkes, Olivia Patteson-Knight, Jacob Simon, Sebastian Smee, Colin Wiggins, and Modern Art Press. Lucian Freud : Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the Oil Paintings. London: Modern Art Press, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 168-169, no. 246",
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