Christopher Woodward of The Garden Museum picks a Lucian Freud from his organisation’s upcoming exhibition.
Christopher Woodward on Two Plants by Lucian Freud
‘Lucian Freud’s study of a liquorice plant (Helichrysum petiolatum) and an aspidistra is, to me, the most mesmerising portrait of such ordinary plants ever painted. Freud’s top-floor apartment was his first with a sky-light and he tested the new light with this work. But it took him three years to capture…
