Louis Fratino would like to get intimate

Louis Fratino’s paintings cover intense and often tender nudes, tables laden with artefacts, tangled limbs and sex, portraits of his mother and still lifes of flowers from his garden in Brooklyn. Aged only 30, the American has already been compared to Picasso, Pierre Bonnard and Lucian Freud. His first small show, With everyone, at Thierry Goldberg in New York in 2016, sold out. Subsequently, institutions have been acquiring: there are two works in the Whitney’s permanent collection,…