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Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist:
"Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88"
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: July 21, 2011
Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, splayed nude in his studio, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.
He died following a brief illness, said William Acqua (showing 500 of 11185 characters). |
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