3 February
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23 April 2006
Section
2: Looking at BritainLucian Freud b. 1922
Girl with a White Dog 1950-1
© Tate, London 2002
Freud established his own artistic identity in meticulously executed realist works, imbued with a pervasive mood of alienation. Girl with a White Dog 1950-1 presents a virtuoso handling of fabrics and textures. Perhaps of more enduring interest is the expressive, staged quality of the composition. It establishes a highly charged situation in which the artist is able to explore formal and optical problems.
