Lucian Freud: In pictures

Lucian Freud, described by art critic Robert Hughes as "the greatest living realist painter", is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition, containing more than 150 works, at London's Tate Britain.

Works at the exhibition, which opens on Thursday, range from a recently completed self-portrait to works from the 1940s.

Self Portrait, Reflections (2002) and Village Boys (1942)

Double Portrait (1985-86)

Hotel Bedroom (1954) and Painter's Mother Reading (1975)

Girl With A White Dog (1950-51)

Girl Reading (1952) and Frances Costelloe (2002)