Update

[poliphilo]

The Lucian Freud portrait of Francis Bacon sold for £5.4 million- well under its asking price. That's still a hell of a lot of money.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I find his paintings of women difficult...he has painted his daughter in this 'porn' way as you say and I find that transgressive (is that the word I mean?) It has a taint about it, abuse of power, incestuousness, paedophilic????
As you say, he can't draw and they are heavily impastoed where he overworks them. Not a tiny patch on Rembrandt, but he has contacts, as you say...
Jenny

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He gives everyone much the same treatment- and his pictures of men are as uncompromising as those of women, and often foreground flaccid penises. I agree that there's something a bit "naff" about painting your daughter in the nude.

I think he's a good, minor artist, I like a lot of what he does, I just reckon his prices are too high.