LUCIAN FREUD

In the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper, a technique favoured by seventeenth-century artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but unusual for a twentieth-century painter. Originally thought to be only a handful, Freud in fac t painted more than a dozen copper works all small-scale, enamel smooth and astonishingly intense.