Lucian Freud

Freud’s subjects are often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, children. As he has said ‘The subject matter is autobiographical, it’s all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement really’…

Dubbed “the Ingres of existentialism”, Freud’s aggressively grim depictions of male and female nudes alter the figurative tradition of the sensual and voluptuous, into an exploration of anxiety, discomfort, and even repugnance…

Lucian Freud’s After Cézanne is a paraphrase or variation on the theme of Paul Cézanne’s Afternoon in Naples. The few paraphrase paintings in Freud’s output represent in-depth examinations of the work of certain great artists with whom he wishes to enter into dialogue…

He makes us aware of our sexuality, our fatness or thinness, our mortality – our nakedness…