Lucien Freud - Man with a Bloody Paintbrush | Literary Review | Issue 471

Robin Simon - Man with a Bloody Paintbrush | Literary Review | Issue 471: Lucian Freud was never short of confidence. In the 1990s he painted a small head of an especially rich individual and demanded a stunning £800,000 for it. The sitter demurred. In 2002 this very obvious likeness was displayed at a big Freud exhibition at Tate Britain with the title Head of a Man. It seemed like a snub, but Freud’s titles were unpredictable: sometimes a...