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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement