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Unseen 'black eye' Lucian Freud self-portrait on sale, The Independent reports
A newly discovered self-portrait of Britain’s most famous – and bankable – living artist (Lucian Freud ) is going on sale next month which shows the artist sporting a black eye. Legend has it that the notoriously reclusive painter, widely considered to be Britain’s best living artist, decided to use his run-in with an angry taxi driver to compose an unusual self-portrait rather than wallow over an altercation that left him noticeably worse off than his adversary. A detail from Freud's self-portrait showing the black eye via independent.co.uk Posted via web from Zoid's reading the Wide Web