Room 6
Lying by the Rags 1989-1990
Freud focuses on the details of his studio - shiny bare floorboards, the mound of paint-smeared rags - as well as
the flesh and hair of his sitter, the painter Sophie de Stempel.
Freud said the floorboards reminded him of the decks in Gustave Doré's illustrations to The Ancient Mariner, but he
insisted of all these things: 'It is not remotely symbolical.
That is what must be stressed.'
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