I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Jacquetta Lampson):
The Hon. A series of huge nude portraits from the mid-1990s depicted the very large Sue Tilley or "Big Sue" some using her job title of "Benefits Supervisor" in the title of the painting as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $33. The exhibition comprised around 30 drawings and paintings done between 1940 and 1945.

Lucian Michael Freud OM CH (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. His works are noted for their psychological penetration and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model.