Not all of us knew that Lucian Freud, the grandson of THE famous Freud was the highest bid living painter, when in 2008 his Big Sue painting was sold for US$33.6 million. He has passed away a few days ago, painting until the very end of his life at 88.
What inspired me to write about him was not his gazing portraits or fat ladies that are so truthful (or borderline shocking), nor that he may have fathered 40 kids, or that he is the first in 300 years (since Rembrandt) for having such a close relation with his mother.
I was impressed how he keeps on working on a painting until he drops. In 2007 he spent 16 months, with a model posing everyday (other than 4 nights), a total of 2400 hours.
Freud said "he feels he's finished when he gets the impression he's working on somebody else's painting".
I always struggle when to finish a painting. Sadly, as I have mostly finished when I find a new interest and start a new work, I would imagine you can keep on painting for years, painting something different everytime you cross the "line" and it will be endless. But this is all theoretical.
Read his full 88 years of life here.
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