Lucian Freud

1922–2011

David and Eli 2003–4
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Artworks

Thickly painted nude man reclining on a white-sheeted bed, legs crossed, a slender whippet asleep against his thigh and a spiky potted plant on a white wicker stand beside him

David and Eli

A young woman sits on a striped sofa, her yellow-green bathrobe slipped open to bare one breast, while a grey-white bull terrier rests its head across her lap

Girl with a White Dog

Close-up portrait in soft grey tones of a man's fleshy face filling the frame, with wavy swept-back hair, heavy-lidded downcast eyes, and a pensive, sagging expression.

Francis Bacon

Head of a Woman

The Painter’s Mother

Woman Sleeping

Woman with an Arm Tattoo

Densely hatched etching of an ageing man's head and bare shoulders facing forward, his furrowed brow and shadowed eyes built from thick black lines against a dark scribbled ground

Self-Portrait: Reflection

Artist as subject

Densely hatched etching of an ageing man's head and bare shoulders facing forward, his furrowed brow and shadowed eyes built from thick black lines against a dark scribbled ground

Self-Portrait: Reflection

A young man with wavy auburn hair and pale grey-blue eyes gazes past the viewer, wearing an open-collared grey shirt; a huge spiky dried leaf lies on the brown table below him

Man with a Thistle (Self-Portrait)

Lucian Freud

Sir Cedric Morris, Bt

Symposium I

Vividly coloured, loosely drawn crowd: a small bride in white holds a dark green bouquet while couples embrace, a man in a striped shirt and orange trousers leans across, and a golden lamp gleams on a brown table beneath swags of green drapery

The Wedding

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