Room 4
Paddington Interior, Harry Diamond 1970
This painting shows Harry Diamond in Freud's flat in Gloucester Terrace, Paddington.
This was the last of a number of portraits Freud painted of Diamond.
In contrast to the earlier Interior in Paddington 1951, shown in
room 1, here Diamond no longer appears as the 'angry young man'.
The earlier work had shown him standing, tense and alert, his fist clenched.
Now making a name for himself as a photographer, Diamond is more relaxed, quieter and more pensive, more closely
fitting the picture editor Bruce Bernard's description of him as a 'complex and sensitive man'. |
