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The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer will be on display for three weeks
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A new self-portrait by artist Lucian Freud, featuring a naked woman, has gone on display for the first time.
It shows the 83-year-old artist painting in his studio with the woman clutching his leg.
The work - titled The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer - went on display at London's National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday for three weeks.
It will then form part of a retrospective exhibition in Venice, Italy, later this year.
'Special occasion'
Gallery director Sandy Nairne said: "I am delighted that Lucian Freud has chosen to give visitors to the National Portrait Gallery the first chance to see his new painting. It is a special occasion."
A spokesman for the gallery said the identity of the woman in the picture has not been revealed.
Following its display in London, The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer will go to Venice's Museo Correr for an exhibition this summer.
Lucian Freud's image of Kate Moss sold for £3.9m
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Freud, the grandson of famed psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, also recently painted supermodel Kate Moss.
The almost life-size nude, called Naked Portrait 2002, was painted while Moss was pregnant with daughter Lila Grace and went on to fetch £3.9m at auction.
A 1967 self-portrait by Freud will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery's major autumn exhibition, Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary.
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