Lucian Freud: A Great Realist Painter

Lucien Freud
©Lucien Freud / Courtesy Tate Modern

Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87
The backdrop in most of Freud's pictures is his decidedly unglamorous studio. Here a prosaic but richly painted white sink takes up most of the canvas, though the cut out figures of two plump wrestlers keep flesh in the picture.

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