Sunny Morning Eight Legs, Lucian Freud, 1997
Lucian Freud has died. I’ll never forget the moment I first saw this piece - my introduction to his work - on the wall of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. The way I saw painting twisted, broke and was reborn again, all in that split second.

Sunny Morning Eight Legs, Lucian Freud, 1997

Lucian Freud has died. I’ll never forget the moment I first saw this piece - my introduction to his work - on the wall of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. The way I saw painting twisted, broke and was reborn again, all in that split second.