Speaking recently about his early years as an artist Lucian Freud claimed, 'I would have thought I did 200 drawings to every painting in those early days.
Sebastian Smee has written frequently on Freud. His introduction to the artist's recent paintings appears in Lucian Freud 1996-2005 (Jonathan Cape, 2005) and his extended interview with Freud was published in Freud at Work (Jonathan Cape, 2006).
Richard Calvocoressi was for many years Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and is now Director of the Henry Moore Foundation.