Room 4
Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait) 1965
Freud painted this self-portrait by looking down at his reflection in a mirror placed by his feet; this accounts for
the extreme foreshortening, and the halo-like ceiling light just above his left shoulder.
The two children are Freud's daughter and son, Rose and Ali Boyt.
Freud said he used a palette knife to describe the space around him, smearing it on and smoothing its surface so that
it seems like a strange, grey, voluminous void. |
