A new exhibition at London’s Pallant House Gallery features photographs by David Dawson, who was Freud’s model and studio assistant for 20 years.

Lucian Freud

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Joan Mitchell

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Walker Evans, photo of Lucian Freud, 1950s

See file for annotated contact sheet, paper negative sleeve, and posthumous negative envelopes. Subject identification per vintage print offered at Christie's South Kensington, October 20, 2000 (lot 270)

Lucian Freud, 1945

In recent years, his paintings commanded staggering prices at auction, including one of an overweight nude woman sleeping on a couch that sold in 2008 for £17.2m.

Lucian Freud, girl in dark dress

Francis Bacon & Lucien Freud, 1974

Francis & Lucien

British painter Lucian Freud was known for his penetrating gaze and uncompromising paintings of nudes

A good studio for an artist is a very important place. Our creative studios might sometimes look like a pile of rubbish or a mixed-up room, but this is where great creations are born!