Lucian Freud, a shy painter speaks

What looks like a fascinating film about Lucian Freud will be released next week in Paris to coincide with the artist's birthday. Called The God of Small Things, Lucian Freud Captured on Film was put together by Tim Meara. There is a trailer for the film that one can see on the website, Painting Perceptions, maintained by Larry Groff, here.

Groff has also put up an extensive and thoughtful multi-part video interview that will provide considerable insight into the work of this artist, whom Robert Hughes called "our greatest living painter." The normally shy and somewhat reclusive Freud was filmed in 1988 for that interview.