Lucian Freud, David Hockney, 2002
DH: his palette is perhaps eight colors. He never put the tops back on the tubes so the paint cakes up on them and he flicks this off on the wall with a swipe. He has been doing this on the studio wall for the last 40 years.
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He’s wearing very un-David colours, isn’t he? I don’t like it very much but then I’m not a Freud fan. I do like this photograph though: I always feel that Freud should be wearing a blood-stained apron as if he’s just stepped in from a butcher’s shop
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I know and love the photo. This is another by Dawson of Freud that I like:
David Dawson, Lucian Freud Working at Night, 2005
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It’s wonderful, and I think that actually is a blood stained apron 🧐 Do you know if the studio has been preserved?
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