Lucian Freud Tots_Gift_Guide The book made Audrey’s mother

The book made Audrey’s mother a household name

with a smile and a sharp elbow

The land itself aids him

and to see how it shines through each of us

Lucian Freud Tots_Gift_Guide The book made Audrey’s motherLucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence,