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'Lucian Freud Portraits' opens at the National Portrait Gallery

(detail) Painter and Model, 1986-7 Private Collection, New York© The Lucian Freud Archive

A major exhibition of paintings by British artist Lucian Freud, has opened to the public at the National Portrait Gallery in London. 'Lucian Freud Portraits'; presents 130 of Freud's paintings, drawings and etchings, selected in close collaboration with the artist and drawn from public and private collections around the world.
A private man, Freud's relationship with his sitters was played out behind the closed door of the studio. Frequently his works evoke the sense of an emotionally charged drama unfolding, yet his subjects remain elusive. Among the sitters represented are friends, family members (particularly his mother, Lucie) and artists such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and David Hockney, as well as the performance artist Leigh Bowery and Bowery's friend Sue Tilley, the 'benefits supervisor', whom Freud immortalised in a series of monumental paintings in the early 1990s.

Sue Tilley poses for pictures in front two paintings of herself entitled both by British artist Lucian Freud, at the National Portrait Gallery in London.. ©AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT

The exhibition runs through May 27th.

For more information visit: www.npg.org.uk/

Published 09.02.2012

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