Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits

David Dawson (Text by); Lucian Freud (Artist); Joseph Koerner (Text by); Jasper Sharp (Text by); Sebastian Smee (Text by)

The artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud's self-portraits redefine the genre In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist wa...