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‘anxious glances and twisted fingers became, in Picasso’s portraits, a seismographic record of the dark times when the Spanish Civil War raged and the Nazis were on the march…’ – Anne Baldassari

Pablo Picasso
Femme allongée sur un canapé (Dora Maar) 1939
oil on canvas, 97.1 × 130.2 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Pablo Picasso/Succession Pablo Picasso

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‘He talked about packing a lot of things into one single brush stroke.’ – Lucian Freud on Bacon

Francis Bacon
Study from Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velazquez 1959
oil on canvas, 152.7 × 119.3 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Francis Bacon

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‘People are always in movement, even when they are asleep… When you are looking very closely, you see it and sense it… This is one of the reasons why painting is different from a photograph.’ – Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Susie 1988-89
oil on canvas, 52 × 57.1 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Art Library

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‘...one of Freud’s largest, grandest and greatest works’ – Bruce Bernard

Lucian Freud
And the Bridegroom 1993
oil on canvas, 231.8 × 195.9 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Art Library

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‘I want my paintings to feel like people. I want the paint to feel like flesh.’ – Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Two Men in the Studio 1987-89
oil on canvas, 185.4 × 120.6 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Art Library

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‘Soutine was the gutsiest of all the Expressionists…’ – Simon Schama

Chaïm Soutine
L’homme au foulard rouge c1921
oil on canvas, 100 × 69.8 cm, The Lewis Collection
© Chaim Soutine