Lucian Freud
Naked Man, Back View
1991-1992
Lucian Freud and the performance artist Leigh Bowery created a modern masterpiece when Freud painted a series of nude portraits. Bowery's awe-inspiring physical presence and unpretentious dignity gave Freud's voyeurism and harsh honesty a worthy subject – someone who wanted to be remembered as colossal. Here is a nude of tragic grandeur, exhibiting his massive back as a modern answer to Michelangelo's furrowed studies of male flesh.
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