Two Plants, 1977-80; Interior at Paddington, 1951.
"Lucian Freud once described one of his plant paintings as 'lots of little portraits of leaves'. Two Plants took him three years to complete and it apparently drove him 'around the bend'. As he recalled: 'I felt like I was composing an enormous symphony, and since I’m completely unmusical, the difficulties were many. And when I took one tiny leaf and changed it, it affected all other areas of it, and so on.' These thoughts, and a few more about how he hoped the painting would convey a 'really biological feeling of things growing and fading', are pretty much all Freud said about the plants in his work. The endless fascination of critics with his fleshy, abrasive-looking models kept the spotlight away from his botanical subjects. ..."
Guardian
W - Lucian Freud
Two Plants, 1977-80
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