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This exhibition catalogue was produced to coincide with The Naked portrait exhibition that was held at Compton Verney from September to December 2007 This was the first exhibition to focus on naked portraiture as a strand in the art of the last century. In contrast to the wider genre of the ‘nude’, naked portraiture engages with the specific identity of an individual sitter and subverts portraiture’s usual concern with the social façade, and the way status and self-image are communicated by what people wear. The title is borrowed from Lucian Freud, who has used it for many of his paintings.
