LUCIAN FREUD: HIS LIFE AND WORK

Posted by Ben East on Oct 18, 2011 in ART | 0 comments

Nice obituary in The National of one of my favourite painters, including an obligatory shoehorned-in reference to East Anglia.

“Lucian Freud was a still a teenager when he learnt arguably his most important lesson in painting. As the Second World War broke out across Europe, he attended Cedric Morris’s East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing. And it was Morris who taught him that a portrait could be “revealing in a way that was almost improper”.

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