What do sketchbooks reveal about the creative mind of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated artists? Watch fashion designer, Bella Freud, talk about sitting for portraits by her father, the ...
Watch artist and presenter, Frank Paul, describe sitting for portraits by his father, the artist Lucian Freud, as he explores sketchbooks from the Gallery’s Lucian Freud Archive. Hello, my name is ...
The mirror of her eyes reminds me of the mirror in Jan van Eyck’s Marriage of Arnolfini, which similarly reflects the part of the room unseen by the viewer, and the colouring in Freud’s painting, with ...
In 1990 a young Welshman called David Dawson was taken to Lucian Freud’s house by his employer ... At first the portrait was to include a regular Freud model, Henrietta Moraes, and the artist’s ...
The influence of Manet is evident in Freud’s portrayal of the female figure in the painting, who also lies over stark-white bedlinen, depicted with warm, flush tones in his signature granular texture ...