Celia Paul is a living painter who is just, at the age of 60, beginning to get the attention she deserves. Her exhibition at Victoria Miro (16 Wharf Road, N1) consists of pictures of people — mainly female members of her family including her mother, sisters and Paul herself — and landscapes. She is known for her relationship with Lucian Freud, and posed for a number of important works by him. There is a touching little posthumous painting of the two of them in the exhibition. There is little connection, however, between her work and his.
Image: Celia Paul, My Sisters in Mourning, 2015-2016
Oil on canvas
147.4 x 148 cm
58 1/8 x 58 1/4 in
58 1/8 x 58 1/4 in
© Celia Paul
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
December 12 2019
