A great painter

Could you imagine, the painting you are now looking at fetched 30 million US dollars in an auction in NY. Who is the painter?

Supervisor's sleeping

He even painted a portrait of the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace. When asked how she felt about her portrait, the Queen remarked that it was interesting. However, Prince Philip said that "it will be something mad if painted by that man".

Portrait of the Queen

Lucian Freud's self portrait

The painter was Lucian Freud who passed away in 2011. He was considered by art critics the greatest artist of the century. He was a German Jew who fled to the UK during WWII. He liked to paint people in a style that is confrontational. He always had his subjects sitted naked in front of him and he liked to see and paint them as though they were animals. He even painted his own portraits in nude. He held his solo exhibition when he was in his twenties and became a famous painter. In his paintings of male sitters, he revealed too much of the male flesh that art dealers in UK worried that no one would buy his paintings. However, he was uncompromising and would not change his style of painting. When interviewed by the media, he remarked that he paints what he sees and not what others want him to see.

His personal assistant

A male sitter

After his death, his personal assistant inherited his studio in London. He left the studio in its original state when the painter had his last painting session before he died in 2011 at the age of 88. He only opened it to the press once when a reporter was interested to take a look inside his studio.

Tubes of paints and brushes left as they were after his last paint session

Discarded linen used by Lucian

Lucian Freud was truly a remarkable painter of modern time and had a unique way of painting people.

Another of his painting that shows his unique style

An artist & friend of Lucian