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 Room 3 

The paintings in this room show the change of style in Freud's work during the 1950s. He became impatient with his earlier habit of working sitting down, painting in great detail on fine canvas with small, soft sable brushes. Instead he began working standing up, painting in a looser style with larger, hogshair brushes. Freud said that Hotel Bedroom 1954 was 'the last painting where I was sitting down; when I stood up I never sat down again'. This double portrait shows Freud, with his second wife, Caroline Blackwood, whom he had married in 1953; the marriage was dissolved in 1957. Freud continued to paint searching images of people close to him, as in the portrait of a Pregnant Girl 1960-1 who was to give birth to Freud's daughter, Bella.