Head of Naked Girl by Lucian Freud

Painting: Head of a Naked Girl 1999
Oil on canvas. 20 1/4 x 16" (52.1x40.7cm).
The UBS Art Collection
Photo: Courtesy UBS Art Collection © 2007 Lucian Freud

Etching: Head of a Naked Girl 2000
Etching Plate: 14 15/16 x 14 15/16" (38x38cm). Sheet: 23 3/16 x 22 7/16" (58.9x57cm). Publisher: Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Printer: Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints, London. Edition: 46.
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Digital Image Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, Jonathan Muzikar © 2007 Lucian Freud

Freud "likes to call his nudes 'naked portraits', pointing out that everybody is naked under their clothes."¹

"Another way of understanding Lucian's procedure is as a method of overcoming the challenge of photography. The extreme prolongation of the process enables him to incorporate an immense amount of observation ... One long-standing aim of Freud's is to include more than one expression in the same image."

^{References:
1 & 2. "Face Off" by Martin Gayford, Modern Painters, Autumn 2004.}