Lucian Freud Portraits

Time Out“He finds weakness and renders it on a heroic scale....” The best that can be said about Freud, who has neither quite revolutionised painting nor single-handedly retained art's loosening grip on reality, is that he brings out the worst in people...

The Independent“An interesting failure...” Freud's subjects have no more identity, than the enormously fat Benefits Supervisor, or the white dog in Girl with a White Dog...

The Observer“The final act of a prodigious career...” The experience is grave, mysterious, compelling and inexhaustibly strong right up to the last portrait, where the brushstrokes simply cease mid-sentence...

The Telegraph“The best large selection of Freud’s work I’ve seen...” After a celebrated artist’s death, his reputation often dips. On the basis of this one exhibition I predict that the opposite may happen with Freud...

Guardian“This exhibition is unmissable...” Freud's paintings always have great and often unexpected moments, things the eye snags on. His was a process of describing sensation and presence, people and things and spaces and light, through the language of painting...