HENI Editions

<Image src="https://resources.heni.com/4c7e56ca-bcbe-48e4-8ff4-a28041120b01.jpg" legend="" />

## Lucian Freud's *John Minton* (1952): A Limited Edition Facsimile Print Exclusively from HENI Editions.

In *John Minton*, Freud’s subject is his friend John Minton, a painter and illustrator who taught traditional anatomical drawing and figure painting. Minton suffered from depression and committed suicide five years after this portrait was painted. Painted from a close-up viewpoint, *John Minton* intrudes on a vulnerable moment of self-reflection and despair.

<Carousel images={[{ "src":"https://resources.heni.com/5b86e211-df80-4da1-aac5-f4d95d1e5914.jpg", "legend": "John Minton (R1), Lucian Freud, 2016"}, { "src": "https://resources.heni.com/e6de360c-1ae6-409c-a84e-a9488f798f49.jpg", "legend": "John Minton (R1), Lucian Freud, 2016"}, { "src":"https://resources.heni.com/4c7e56ca-bcbe-48e4-8ff4-a28041120b01.jpg", "legend": "John Minton (R1), Lucian Freud, 2016"}, { "src":"https://resources.heni.com/9a6eff79-7b0c-4dc8-a369-2ea88b4c82d1.jpg", "legend": "John Minton (R1), Lucian Freud, 2016"}, { "src":"https://resources.heni.com/8a59da40-892d-42b8-863d-2deaede7b3e8.jpg", "legend": "John Minton (R1), Lucian Freud, 2016"}]} />

Avoiding comfortable routines and idealistic approaches to representation, Freud constantly strove to broaden the boundaries of his subject matter. The background of *John Minton* is grey and flat, and the sitter’s somewhat elongated face, expressive but seemingly regretful, occupies most of the canvas. His large, empty eyes and strained facial features offer a haunting image of restrained despair. Freud lays bare his sitter’s psychology through the expression of the body: the slumped posture, the gaunt face, the eyes that stare out in different directions. Minton’s depressed state is vividly captured in the heavy-toned palette and morbidly sensitive brushwork. 

<Button href="https://heni.com/editions/artwork/R1">View *John Minton*</Button>

Discover Lucian Freud’s ‘John Minton’ (1952), published as a limited edition facsimile print by HENI Editions as an edition of 500.

Lucian Freud – John Minton