I Can Understand . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . the financial reasons for wanting to reveal this work by Lucian Freud but can anyone here actually see any great artistic merit in it?

https://tinyurl.com/ycg6hvu3

[kvalidir]

It's nice enough but his stuff always looks a bit charity shop to me tbh, not really my personal taste :/

[rowanwitch]

His portraits are better, but in places its quite well executed. Would never have guessed the artist from the picture

[naomi24]

No more than in the work of any decent amateur artist.

[Buenchico]

I reckon whoever named it as 'A Suffolk Spring Landscape with Welsh Mountains Beyond' either has a very poor knowledge of geography or had their tongue stuck very firmly in their cheek!

[Prudie]

A lot of people who see great artistic merit in a lot of modern art are kidding themselves.

[woofgang]

Well I like it...but then I know nothing about art

[jno]

I think that's just a blow-up of one part of it. When you zoom outwards about 100 times you'll find it's actually the skin of Sue the benefits superviser.

[Baldric]

I think the Freud Painting they are getting excited about which is possibly a Portrait by Freud under the Landscape which could be worth millions if they manage to uncover it.

[Buenchico]

Jno:
Would you rather have your benefits supervisor sleeping
http://www.artnewsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/09/benefits-supervisor-sleepin.jpg
or merely resting?
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_03740_0031B_000(lucian_freud_benefits_supervisor_resting).jpg

(I think that either would put me off my beer if I had it hanging on my wall!)

[jno]

I like his portraits, though I didn't think he did the queen very well - Rolf Harris was better.

[Buenchico]

As a work of art I probably like Lucian Freud's painting of Lizzie better
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ay_101249277.jpg?quality=80&strip=all
(i.e. if was simply a portrait of a person that I'd never seen I'd admire the bold brushwork)
but Rolf Harris's portrait was definitely the 'kinder' one:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/02/video-undefined-1F53094100000578-381_636x358.jpg

[pastafreak]

It's ok...but certainly very different from Freud's usual style...which I like very much. His nudes/portraits are very much "warts and all".