Picture: Sotheby's. 'Self-Portrait' by Lucian Freud, 1952.
The Guardian has a good 'life in pictures' slideshow here.
The Daily Telegraph has '10 things you didn't know about his paintings' here.
A reader writes:
He stopped in the street once to admire my dog, but of course I was far too shy to say anything.
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