Lucian Freud was 88 a painter of distress

3quarksdaily: R.I.P. Lucian Freud, 1922 – 2011: "From the late 1950s, when he began using a stiffer brush and moving paint in great swaths around the canvas, Mr. Freud’s nudes took on a new fleshiness and mass. His subjects, pushed to the limit in exhausting extended sessions, day after day, dropped their defenses and opened up. The faces showed fatigue, distress, torpor."


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