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Pages 108 and 109: HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2001.   With Kate Moss in Bed, 2010.
 Photo: David Dawson, Private Collection/Bridgeman Images  Photo: David Dawson, Private Collection/Bridgeman Images




























 And life, pulsating and inimitable, is what still shines through to-  Remarkable works that after his death, as stipulated in his will,
 day when we observe the photographs taken over the last two dec-  have been donated to museums in London.
 ades of his existence and career in the home-studio in London, on   Freud was a tireless worker. Following afternoon sessions
 elegant Kensington Church Street; a building with a nondescript  with his models, he would return to the studio for an evening
 facade, but one that contained that charm of sincere, Bohemian  shift, working until the wee hours in the company of his whip-
 traditionalism that Freud transfigured with his own very personal  pet Eli, often seen stretched out beside the painted subjects as an
 taste, where timeless furnishings coexisted with objects of little  integral part of the composition, like the dilapidated armchairs
 value and works by the artist he loved best: the above-mentioned  and sofas in his ground-floor studio where the refrigerator was
 Bacon, his German friend Frank Auerbach, and then marvelous   always stocked with bottles of Bollinger and little else: a way to
 bronzes by Rodin, important canvases by Constable and Corot.  make his guests feel at ease, late at night. With impeccable style.



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