On July 20 in London, the great painter Lucian Freud passed ... Freud was famous for demanding hundreds of hours with his models; he needed those hours because his art was all about taking the ...

They don’t get under the skin the way Lucian Freud’s comparatively realistic paintings do ... suggesting Gauguin’s famous devilish self-portrait. In Painter Working from 1993, Freud depicts ...

Freud was a painter who bucked trends in the art world ... "And the famous story is that, when the duchess turned 70, she had a grand party and got up and gave a toast and said, 'Lucian, I'm ...

Lucian Freud’s paintings of benefits supervisor Sue Tilley set records at auction houses. She tells Cameron Laux what it was like to sit for one of Britain’s greatest artists. One of Lucian ...

Sure enough, Lucian Freud quotes here the famous/infamous painting by Courbet, The Origin of the World. And the open book, with its ancient Egyptian portraits, is yet another link to the famous ...

In the history of art, there must be greater evocations ... been hung directly above his grandfather’s famous couch. The mind reels. Lucian Freud’s career unfolded over a period when academic ...

Now, 14 years after his death, the catalogue raisonné of Freud’s oil paintings has been published. Co-authored by Lampert and the art historian Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of ...

Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith, who has released a new solo album, explains how British artist Lucien Freud has influenced his work I first became aware of Lucian Freud when ... and Bacon became ...

It is this story that provided the poignant backdrop, as well as the seeds of some controversy, when a major exhibition of Lucian Freud's paintings opened at the KHM in Vienna last month.

Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 ... volume on the British artist's oil paintings offers a depth of scrutiny that he himself was famous for ...

How do you find a new angle on an artist as familiar as Lucian Freud ... the sitters and their relationship with Freud. We’re forced to look at the paintings on their own terms: a person ...