Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

“He wanted to paint a person, not their likeness.” Naked Portrait is sub-titled “A Memoir of Lucian Freud”. Writing it appears to have been intensely cathartic for Boyt ...

A powerful self-portrait by Lucian Freud, on loan from the UBS Art Collection, features in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that explores the artist’s forensic gaze Lucian Freud, ...

She may look a little hazy around the edges. But that won't stop the Queen having very firm opinions on her latest portrait. Artist Lucian Freud might have got a hint of reaction when he presented ...

In 1933, the 11-year-old Lucian Freud and his family fled Nazi Germany ... The show brings together a number of portraits of the artist’s mother, children and other relatives, as well as a ...

A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 months to paint sold ... have attracted growing interest -- and prices -- in recent years. "Ria, Naked Portrait" was the star attraction of Wednesday's sale ...

Mr Shoa said it was a "dream come true" that his work would appear alongside artists including Rembrandt and Lucian Freud ... artist won the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1992 and ...

a very personal account of sitting for a portrait by her father Lucian Freud. Please accept functional and analytics cookies to access this content. Told through the memories and misrememberings of ...

Filmmaker Jake Auerbach decides to offer a description of his friend Lucian Freud that's more truthful than the common media image by asking a number of people who have sat for Freud's portraits ...