The Nude Maja is known as the first totally profound nude life-size picture of a women in Western art. The Nude Maja was never identified, but is thought to be a lady in which Goya had an affair with. During Goya's lifetime the painting was never publicly displayed. It was owned by Manuel de Godoy, the prime minister of Spain.
Early in Lucian Freud's career he experimented with Surrealism. His early paintings usually consisted of relatively thin paint jobs and depicted people, animal, and plants in unusual juxtapositions; positions that contrast each other or oppose one another (like the painting above).
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