David Dawson has been photographing Freud exclusively since the mid 1990s and his daily contact with the painter has provided a compelling insight into the life of this intensely private artist. Over the years Dawson’s pictures have recorded the daily goings on in the studio, offering rare glimpses of portrait sittings, studio visits and paintings in progress. ‘Lucian Freud: Studio Life’ is the third and final set of photographs to be published; taken throughout the final years of Freud’s life the pictures offer an intimate and extremely personal view of the artist’s studio and his home.
David Dawson is a painter and met Lucian Freud when he was working part-time for his then dealer, James Kirkman, in the late 1980s. He was Freud’s assistant for over two decades until the artist’s death in July 2011 during which time Dawson also modelled for Freud on numerous occasions.
