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Lucian Freud

The Painter's Mother IV, 1973

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About the artwork

This painting is one of a series of 18 portraits that Lucian Freud made of his mother, Lucie Freud, in the years following his father’s death. Lucie Freud suffered from depression after her husband’s death, and it has been suggested that these paintings were an attempt to combat this depression. Lucie sat for her son more than a thousand times over the years between 1972 and 1984, to create the series of ten paintings, five drawings and three etchings. Each portrait took months to complete. This piece is a painting in oils, using a thick impasto technique.

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Artist Lucian Freud
Artwork The Painter's Mother IV
Exhibition Lucian Freud
Date of work 1973
Credit Original: Oil paint on canvas 273 x 186 x 16 mm Tate. Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury 2006, accessioned 2008 © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lucian Michael Freud (1922 – 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, and is considered one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. Although his early work contained surrealist elements, he is best known for his figurative paintings more heavily influenced by realism and intense observation. Most of his models were friends and family members, and this relationship between artist and model, often unsettling or uncomfortable, is a central theme to his work. His reputation for demanding schedules for these models was well established, with one painting taking approximately 2,400 hours to complete and requiring the model to attend all but four evenings of that time.

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