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Books Side by Side: Picasso V Matisse, Lucian Freud: Beholding the Animal, Lucian Freud: 1996-2005, Freud, Lucian Freud Awards Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
Boston globe art critic sebastian smee wins pulitzer prize
Sebastian Smee is an Australian arts critic for The Boston Globe.
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- Boston globe art critic sebastian smee wins pulitzer prize
- Finding fay sebastian smee art lecture
- Education and career
- Works
- Publications
- References

Finding fay sebastian smee art lecture
Education and career

Educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, Smee graduated from the University of Sydney with an Honours degree in fine arts in 1994 and moved to Boston in 2008, having also lived in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2004. Before joining the Boston Globe he was national art critic for The Australian and has also worked for The Daily Telegraph and contributed to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Art Newspaper, Modern Painters, Prospect magazine and The Spectator.

He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his "vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation".
Works

Smee is the author of the books Lucian Freud and Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse. In 2016, The Art of Rivalry was published. The book examines the relationships between four pairs of artists - Matisse and Picasso, de Kooning and Pollock, Freud and Bacon, and Degas and Manet.
Publications
