Ego is not a dirty word - in fact, it's important that we all have it in the right amount.

CLEMENT FREUD, the English humourist-broadcaster-politician who died a couple of months ago, seemed intent on offending Australians. Asked during a visit here which city he preferred, Sydney or Melbourne, he replied, "It's like comparing leprosy with syphilis." He also had this to say: "In England, many men take sexual pleasures..read more

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MORE than a few eyebrows were raised in 2001 when the National Gallery of Australia paid a then record $7.4 million for a work by British painter Lucian Freud, After Cezanne.

Insight without inhibitions makes evocative artwork, as a showing of this master's work reveals. JILL STOWELL writes.