Lucian Freud Dead

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping. By Lucian Freud: Yours for £17.2 million

The Artist Lucain Freud has died aged 88. Freud, is famed for his intense realist portrayal of people, particularly nudes. He will be remembered as one of the greatest portrait painters of the twentieth century. He had a strongly idiosyncratic style of painting and he tenaciously adhered to his personal artistic vision, as artistic trends came and went.

Freud was a productive, if methodical artist, working long, hard hours in the studio, even as he approached his late eighties. His work has often been described as disturbing. A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II the reigning English Monarch was described by Robin Simon of the British Art Journal as: Making her look like one of the Royal Corgis who has suffered a stroke.

The grandson of Sigmund Freud the pioneer of modern Psychoanalysis. Freud was born in Berlin Germany in 1922 and moved with his parents to London England in 1933 to escape the Nazis. He became a naturalized british citizen six years later. 

Freud lived and worked in London’s exclusive Holland Park, where he was pals with and painted such luminaries as model Kate Moss. As the grand old man of English art, Freud’s work is highly collectible. A recent painting of an overweight woman on a couch sold for £17.2 million. Freud’s artistic legacy is assured. Funeral arrangements have not been released at the time of writing