At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell: Lucian Freud, 25 July 2002
“... again.’ Which makes you think about sitting and standing self-portraits: Hogarth sitting – keen, you feel, to get closer to the canvas. Velázquez in Las Meninas standing – clearly needing to move back to see how his latest mark is working. In Freud’s later, freer pictures the puckering of cheek or belly is described by marks which strongly ... ”