Gaby Wood: Diary

Created
Fri, 19/05/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 19/05/2023 - 00:00
Lucian Freud’s etched portraits look at first like mangled bits of realism but are in fact stealthy works of cubism: many selves, many facets, many moments in one. They display two kinds of time: the time it took to make the work, and the person the portrait anticipates as a result of that long observation.