Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was a British painter known for closely observed portraits and nudes, often made with thick layers of paint and posed sitters.

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping: A 1995 oil painting by Lucian Freud depicting Sue Tilley asleep on a sofa. This large-scale portrait exemplifies his attention to a sitter’s body and presence.
Francis Bacon: An Irish-born British painter known for distorted, often anguished images of the human figure. Freud and Bacon were close friends and leading, contrasting figurative painters in postwar Britain.
Berlin: The capital of Germany and the city where Lucian Freud was born in 1922. Freud’s family left Berlin for Britain during his childhood.
Girl with a White Dog: A 1950–51 Lucian Freud portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, holding a white dog. Its fine detail and controlled surface contrast with his later, looser paintings.
School of London: A loose grouping of postwar London painters committed to figurative painting. Freud is often associated with this group alongside artists such as Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach.
Sue Tilley: A British writer and former employment-office worker who posed repeatedly for Lucian Freud. Her long series of sittings produced several of Freud’s best-known portraits.
Celia Paul: A British painter whose portraits and autobiographical works often draw on intimate personal relationships. Paul studied with Freud and later became both his partner and a subject of his paintings.
London: The capital of the United Kingdom and a major center of British art. Freud settled in London, where he lived and worked for most of his life.
Girl with a Kitten: A 1947 portrait by Lucian Freud of Kitty Garman holding a kitten. Its intense stare and precise handling mark his early portrait style.
Frank Auerbach: A German-born British painter known for heavily worked portraits and cityscapes. Auerbach shared Freud’s commitment to sustained observation while developing a more abstracted style.

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