Lucian Freud's retrospective

The last work of the late Lucian Freud goes on show for the first time at the most ambitious exhibition of the artist's work for ten years, opening at the National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom).

As well as including Freud's most important portraits from the earliest in the 1940s, the exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to see -for the first time- Portrait of the Hound 2011, the unfinished painting of Freud's assistant David Dawson and his dog Eli. This was the portrait on which the artist was still working until shortly before his death on 20 July 2011.

With 130 paintings and works on paper loaned from museums and private collections throughout the world. Sitters represented in the exhibition include family members, particularly his mother Lucie, and artists such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews, John Minton and David Hockney, and the performance artist Leigh Bowery. Bowery’s friend Sue Tilley, the Benefits Supervisor, who was immortalised by Freud in a series of monumental paintings in the 1990s, is also included.

Date: until May 27.
Location: National Portrait Gallery. St Martin's Place. London. WC2H 0HE. United Kingdom.
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Thursday and Friday from 10am to 9pm