"one of the greatest painters of the 20th century" - Mr Acquavella on Freud.
Grandson of Sigmund Freud, he became one of the biggest realist painters of the century, 2008 seeing his painting of a woman on a couch selling for a record by a living artist at £20.6m.
His work expresses so much more than a mere literal representational notifying of a person image etc. The work is alive, despite the almost 'dead' look of the woman in the picture above the paint itself feels to be moving, to be aware. He was an historic artists and will be missed.
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