The Painter's Mother Dead 1989 © The Artist Charcoal on paper 33 x 24.4 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E Holden Fund, 1989

Room 7 The Painter's Mother Dead 1989 Freud's mother died in August 1989. He had painted portraits of her almost uninterruptedly from the death of his father in 1970 until the mid-1980s, when she was over 90. This is his final portrait of her, drawn on the day after she died.