The daughter of Lucian Freud has defended her father for painting her naked when she was 18, saying there was little difference between the painting and how women dress today.
Rose Boyt, who posed for her father’s portrait of her entitled Rose, said that galleries nowadays would probably not display a man’s painting of his naked daughter. She said there was a strange “prudishness” in contemporary society and that any nude paintings of women by men were “not fashionable at the moment”.
However, Boyt, who is the executor of Freud’s estate, told The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival that there was little difference between her portrait and the way some women dress today.
Boyt was the model for Rose
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