A British room contains four works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), ranging from an early painting (Self Portrait, 1949) to the remarkable etching, Self - Portrait: Reflection (1996); two paintings by Francis Bacon (1909 - 92); the heavily
impasto Head of Man (Self - Portrait)(1964) by Leon Kossoff (b1926), whose thick paint swirls offer his own form of distortion, concealment and ensuing excavation; and a delightful recent graphite piece by Frank Auerbach (b1931), Self - Portrait II (2010).