This Is the First UK Museum Exhibition Focused on Lucian Freud’s Works on Paper

With Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting, the National Portrait Gallery is hosting the UK’s first museum exhibition dedicated to the artist’s works on paper. It explores his lifelong focus on the human face and figure, with pencil, pen, ink, charcoal and etching pieces from the 1930s to the early 21st century on display, some of which are being shown for the first time. A curated group of important paintings will be hung alongside the drawings to highlight the dialogue between his practice on paper and on canvas.