The Painter's Garden

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Lucian Freud

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Shortly after Freud's homage to Chardin was complete, which had involved months of sitting in a grand, but windowless, hall of the National Gallery at night, the artist, in predictable fashion, decided to spend months gazing into the daylight and duly returned to paint his garden. He embarked upon the second and final large scale etching of the subject, which had its origins in the small, rare work of 1993, Landscape. It is entirely possible that in The Painter’s Garden Freud reaches the peak of his ambition, patience and attainment in taming the medium in this monumental, unbelievably complex rendering. The huge plate is incised, scored and marked to the very edges with an array of gestures that manages to retain extraordinary depth and detail despite the furious formation of intertwining, twisting, weaving lines that covers every small part of the image.