The UK’s first museum exhibition devoted to works on paper by Lucian Freud is at the National Portrait Gallery in London from February 12-May 4. It will explore the artist’s lifelong preoccupation with the human face and figure from the 1930’s to the early 21st century. The focus will be on Freud’s mastery of drawing in all its forms, from pencil, pen and ink to charcoal and etching. A selected group of paintings will open up the dynamic dialogue between his practice on paper and on canvas. Ahead of the show the Gallery has acquired twelve new works from the estate of Lucian Freud including eight etchings. One of them, pictured here, depicts his fashion designer daughter Bella Freud. Bella in her Pluto T-Shirt dates to 1995.
