In Lucian Freud’s Double Portrait (1988-90), the Freud family dog Pluto is depicted together with his daughter, Bella. Painted in the British artist’s expressionist style, the masterpiece is one of the more than 50 works, comprising Freud’s landscapes, portraits and nudes, featured in an ongoing exhibition, Lucian Freud: Works from the UBS Art Collection, at the UBS Art Gallery located in the global financial institution’s New York headquarters.
“This is an example of one of the notable pockets of depth in the [UBS Art] Collection,” says Mary Rozell, the global head of the UBS Art Collection, “which demonstrates our ongoing commitment to supporting an artist’s work. We have 54 works by Lucian Freud, most of them etchings, and the centrepiece of the show is (1988-90).”