Bella Freud by Lucian Freud
A softer, more tender nude by Lucien Freud will go up for auction at Christie's and is estimated to reach £2.2m. Rather than being the harsh and brutally honest nude depiction that he normally does of his sitters, this one of his daughter Bella Freud when she was 20 is more compassionate, perhaps influenced by the father-daughter relationship.
Freud by Freud comes under the hammer
"The pose may be relaxed, but the face is not: the woman seems about to speak, to protest perhaps that she would rather be the daughter of an astronaut or a binman than of an artist noted both for pitilessly frank nude portraits, and for taking unfeasibly long to complete them." the guardian
