Unripe Tangerine 1946 © The Artist Oil on metal plate 8.9 x 8.9 cm Collection of Colin St John Wilson

Room 2 Unripe Tangerine, 1946 After the war, Freud was keen to take to opportunity to travel; he was unable to go to France as he wanted, but managed to get as far as the Isles of Scilly. By the summer of 1946 travel was easier, and he managed to get to Paris and then, later the same summer, Freud went to Greece, at the suggestion of the painter, John Craxton. The two spent some months in Poros, where Freud painted still-life objects - lemons and tangerines, horns and sea thistles - in the bright southern light.