Lucian Freud (England 1922- 2011), Hotel Bedroom, o/c, 1954. This double portrait of Freud and his second wife Caroline Blackwood was seen as shocking, violent and cruel. Caroline wrote later she 'was dismayed ... why he needed to paint a girl, who at that point still looked childish, as so distressingly old'. This work was one of the last Freud painted in his earlier style. It was shown at the 1954 Venice Biennale. Collection Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada, on loan to the…
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