2001
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Naked Portrait Standing is a 2001 by Lucian Freud, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Lucian Freud made this etching called *Naked Portrait Standing* in 2001. It’s a print, not a painting, and shows a single standing figure. The artist worked closely with his printer Marc Balakjian on the etching process. Freud used his favorite model, Nicola-Rose O’Hara, for this piece. He also linked the pose to an old tree drawing by Constable. Only two prints like this exist because Freud changed his mind after seeing a test version. Check out Freud’s paintings next at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A nude female figure stands with hands clasped behind her head in this etching by Lucian Freud from 2001. The model is Nicola-Rose O'Hara, who also posed for Freud’s 1999–2001 oil painting *Naked Portrait Standing*. The pose may reference Freud’s interest in Constable’s *Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree*. Only two impressions exist, as Freud abandoned the plate after finding the figure’s rendering unsatisfactory.
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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
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