Photo Gallery: Lucian Freud – The Painter's Etchings

An exhibition at MoMA in New York, from 16 December 2007 to 10 March 2008, explores the relationship between the etchings and paintings of the British painter Lucian Freud. On show are nearly 70 etchings juxtaposed with 21 related paintings and five drawings, plus three etching plates. View MoMA's Freud Exhibition website.

Lucian Freud is renowned as a painter with a frank scrutiny of the figure, whether just a head or a full nude, but like so many painters etching is an established part of his artistic practice too. The MoMA exhibition provides an opportunity to study his works in these two mediums together, particularly where he's done both a painting and an etching of the same model.

Freud does not make an etching from a painting, but rather creates them as separate works. Sometimes the etching precedes the painting. He uses the same painterly and gestural approach in both, creating bunched, feathered, and hatched lines to convey the features of an individual.