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Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits

Paintings spanning six decades go on display

For the first time over 50 self-portraits by Lucian Freud will be on display at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, spanning over six decades of the artist's life. Today programme presenter Martha Kearney visited the exhibition with Lucian Freud's daughter, the writer Esther Freud, and David Dawson, a painter and photographer who was Freud's studio assistant and curated the exhibition.

(Image: Lucian Freud: the Self Portraits, credit: The Royal Academy)

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