Known for his eccentric demeanor and realistic impasto paintings, Lucian Freud was an artist par excellence having created several master pieces over a six-decade career. He is considered to be one of the pioneers amongst the figurative portraitists of the twentieth century. During a time when abstract art was dominating, Lucian had chosen the conventional route, although there was nothing conventional about his methods. He was infamous for making his sitters, about 168 of his friends and family members, go through some long grueling sessions for his paintings. Few of his models have compared the intensity of his focus, over the course of his paintings, to that of his grandfather, Sigmund Freud’s while he psychoanalyzed his subjects. Lucian’s subjects included Queen Elizabeth II, Martin Grayford, Kate Moss, and David Hockney amongst others; his surreal neo-figurative style inspiring several artists like Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Damien Hirst and John Currin. His private life littered with numerous affairs and a gambling addiction, lent an aura of realism to his work. His self-portraits and nudes painted with a thick laden brush splashing hues of browns and beiges across canvases, adorn the walls of London’s Tate Gallery, Washington’s National Gallery of Art, Now York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to name a few