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 Room 4 

This room includes Naked Girl 1966, the first of the outstanding series of naked portraits Freud produced from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. We are also re-introduced to Harry Diamond, who appears in Paddington Interior, Harry Diamond 1970, almost twenty years after featuring in the Interior in Paddington 1951, shown in room 1. Freud also continued to paint members of his family: Reflection with Two Children (Self Portrait) 1965 shows the artist with two of his children. Plants as well as humans have always fascinated him: the Large Interior, Paddington 1968-9 shows another of his daughters, Isobel ('Ib'), lying down on his studio floor for an afternoon nap, under the leaves of a spreading plant. In 1970 Freud's father died, and his mother became deeply depressed. Room 4 contains some of the series of closely-observed portraits of his mother which Freud began at this time, partly as a way of looking after her. The exhibition curator, William Feaver, has described these extraordinary paintings as 'among the most intense portraits of one person - by a son to a mother - ever painted'.