Now live: The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll, featuring Lucian Freud and Chantal Joffe

IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, presents a virtual exhibition (3 March-8 August 2021) available to view on Vortic and at imma.ie, followed by a gallery display of the pastels, which will be available to visit in the Freud Centre when current Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

The Artist's Mother is the latest project in response to the IMMA Collection: Freud Project 2016-2021. Inspired by Lucian Freud's paintings of his mother, Lucie, this is the first presentation which interweaves digital and physical elements. Central to the project is the work of Chantal Joffe who has portrayed her mother, Daryll, in an exceptional series of paintings and pastels.

The exhibition The Artist's Mother: Lucie and Daryll is the first time IMMA combines both a gallery display in the Freud Centre, alongside a digitally installed exhibition in a new virtual gallery space. In this series of 15 portraits, Joffe provides insights into the unique bond between mother-subject and artist-child.

At the centre of this exhibition are two of Freud's most outstanding portraits of his mother The Painter's Mother Reading (1975) and Painter's Mother Resting I (1976). The encounter will be further explored online through contributions by poet Annie Freud, Lucian's eldest daughter, who presents her poem Hiddensee, 2019, and an essay The Life and Cultural Milieu of Lucie Freud, 2021, both exploring Lucie Freud.

The virtual exhibition is presented by IMMA in partnership with Victoria Miro and Vortic Collect.

Experience the exhibition

Images: 

Chantal Joffe, The Conversation, 2016