Artist field note

Lucian Freud

Flesh without flattery.

Benefits Supervisor Resting by Lucian Freud — Example from the series
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Benefits Supervisor Resting

1994

Flesh is built slowly from dense paint. Looking becomes almost tactile.

The five in one idea

Freud made the physical fact of another person impossible to ignore.