BiographyLucian Freud was a German-British painter widely regarded as one of the greatest figurative artists of the 20th century, known for his unsparing, psychologically intense portraits of friends, family, and himself in which he rendered flesh with a clinical yet deeply empathetic scrutiny. His thick, dragged brushwork and unflinching attention to skin, fat, and musculature gave his canvases an almost sculptural presence. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, he worked until his death at 88 and commanded some of the highest prices ever achieved for a living artist.
