But I thought, after putting so many other people through it, I ought to subject myself to the same treatment.” “I felt very uneasy doing it,” he told an interviewer just before the painting was unveiled. It shows him standing in unlaced boots, facing the viewer and brandishing his palette knife the way an aging warrior would a dagger. “Painter Working, Reflection,” is now considered by critics and art historians to be his greatest self-portrait. He stood naked and painted in the top-floor London studio where he had spent so many of his waking hours. LONDON - In 1993, the British painter Lucian Freud, who had just turned 70, took on one of the boldest projects of his career: producing a full-length portrait of himself in his birthday suit.
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