Lord Goodman in his Yellow Pyjamas 1987 © The Artist Etching with watercolour on paper 31 x 40.2 cm The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester Audio Clip

Room 7 Lord Goodman in his Yellow Pyjamas 1987 Freud had made a few etchings during the 1940s, but did not return to printmaking again until the early 1980s. One of his reasons for doing this was that his paintings were getting extremely expensive, beyond the pockets of ordinary people. Etchings, printed in multiples, were more affordable. In this one, the colour of the pyjamas has been added with watercolour wash. It shows Freud's lawyer, Arnold Goodman, a public figure of great importance who was too busy to sit for Freud during the day. Freud came to him instead, at eight o'clock in the morning, and drew him in bed, over breakfast. As the curator of this exhibition, William Feaver, has said 'the head was, formally speaking, ugly, yet of course when you look at it, and explore those extraordinary elephantine folds, you see not only rugged beauty but you also see interest, humour and human intelligence.'