Lucian Freud Tots_Gift_Guide For four generations the quilt

For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth

and to see how it shines through each of us

The land itself aids him

IN A DEVASTATED 21ST CENTURY

Lucian Freud Tots_Gift_Guide For four generations the quiltLucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence,