I’d just graduated from the Royal College of Art.
Through James Kirkman, who was Lucian’s dealer at the time. From then on, I saw every single painting being made, because I was with Lucian every single day. It’s the first painting he ever did of Leigh. It made all of the hairs on my arm and my neck stand on end. What was that experience like?ĭavid Dawson: That took my breath away. This was the first painting by Lucian Freud that you ever saw, in the flesh, as it were. On the wall is a huge 1990 portrait, eight feet high, of Leigh Bowery, sitting in what looks like a velvet chair that’s too small for him.
Observer: We’re standing here at the far end of the long gallery on the first floor at Acquavella Galleries.
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