Lucian Freud

"Benefits Supervising Sleep", Lucian Freud, oil on Canvas, 59 x 82 in, 1995

Fun Facts:Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. These works are usually painted with relatively thin paint.  From the 1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, employing a thicker impasto. With this technique, he would often clean his brush after each stroke. The colours in these paintings are typically muted.