New York Review of Books

Lucian Freud: The Pitiless Eye

New York Review of Books

Jenny Uglow reviews Lucian Freud Unseen at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on view through September 6, 2016. Uglow writes: “Freud felt—in a very old-fashioned way—that his portraits somehow got to the essence, the heart of the ‘self.’ Martin Gayford quotes him as saying he wanted a painting not to be ‘of’ or ‘like’ the […]