Sleepy Sunday sentiments by Lucian Freud. This candid portrait is typical of the British artist’s intimate approach: he rarely employed artists’ models, instead enlisting his family members, friends and acquaintances to sit for him in his London studio. Here, we see Freud’s then-pregnant daughter Isobel and her partner Pat Costelloe rendered in his famously fleshy, impasto style. They lie furled on a brown, blanketed bed in a stark corner of the room, which serves to enhance the sense of solace they appear to take in one another’s presence. Tenderness, personified.
