Lucian Freud
Girl with a Fig Leaf
1947
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
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Artist
Lucian Freud
1922–2011 · British, born Germany · Based in London, United Kingdom
- East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing (1942)
- Goldsmiths College, London (1943)
- Painting
- Etching
- Oil on Canvas
Lucian Freud pursued portraiture and the nude with extraordinary persistence, painting family, friends, lovers and fellow artists over long sittings. His early linear precision gradually gave way to dense, dragged paint that treats flesh as a material landscape.
Painting; etching
Gallery Representation
Objects
Major Works
- 1947Girl with a Kitten
- 1950–51Girl with a White Dog
- 1954Hotel Bedroom
- 1965Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)
- 1968Naked Girl Asleep
- 1995Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
- 1994Benefits Supervisor Resting
- 1990Leigh Bowery (Seated)
- 1976The Painter’s Mother Resting I
- 2002David Hockney
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