Lucian Freud’s 1947 painting Girl with a Kitten is a haunting, emotionally charged portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman. With its muted palette and tightly cropped composition, the work reflects the psychological intensity that defined much of Freud’s art. The image of Kitty gripping a kitten (symbolically linked to herself) suggests themes of self-sabotage, inner turmoil, and emotional entrapment, revealing the complex layers of their fraught relationship and Freud’s deeply personal artistic process.