Forget Lucian Freud's nudes – he was a magnificent painter of plants — theguardian.com

Lucian Freud once described one of his plant paintings as “lots of little portraits of leaves”. Two Plants took him three years to complete and it apparently drove him “around the bend”. As he recalled: “I felt like I was composing an enormous symphony, and since I’m completely unmusical, the difficulties were many. And when I took one tiny leaf and changed it, it affected all other areas of it, and so on.”

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