LUCIAN FREUD

When you talk about the equation [of flesh with paint], it makes me uneasy. I want paint to work as flesh, which is something different from the equation. I have always had scorn for "la belle peinture" and "la délicatesse des touches." I know my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with portraits tat resembled people. I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. I didn't want to get just a likeness like a mimic, but to portray them, like an actor. As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as the flesh does.

Lucian Freud

pass cursor over image WANTED POSTER Francis Bacon (1952) 17.8 x 12.8 cm, oil on copper Collection of Tate Gallery, London STOLEN in 1988 Copyright © Lucian Freud

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"Henrietta Moraes (born Audrey Wendy Abbott) (1931 - 6 January 1998) became the celebrated muse of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in 1950s Soho Bohemia. Drinking buddy of Marianne Faithfull and the Stones, lover of Lucian Freud, Henrietta Moraes published her memories in Henrietta, a social history of London and a honest account of 40 years of alcoholism. Henrietta Moraes died in 1998." -

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