69 x 94 cm. (27.2 x 37 in.) ...

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 ...

5 3/8 in. x 3 3/8 in. (135 mm x 85 mm) overall ...

In 1990 a young Welshman called David Dawson was taken to Lucian Freud’s house by his employer ... ‘He asked me to sit for a painting,’ Dawson says in his new book, A Painter’s Progress. At first the ...

Have you ever heard of Hygge? It’s a Danish and Norwegian word used to describe a feeling of coziness.

Martin Gayford is an art critic and the author of studies of Constable and Van Gogh. In 2003 he offered to sit for a portrait by Lucian Freud, whom he had known both professionally and as a friend for ...

Freud began this painting while working on a full-length double portrait of the same two men in which the naked figure is standing. He became so absorbed in this work that he temporarily put aside the ...

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 ...

An antiques dealer is locked in a court fight with a former intern who claims she is entitled to half of his £1 million ...

Jean Strouse’s “Family Romance” recounts Sargent’s relationship with the Wertheimers, a family that played a major role in ...

He was active in Soho's artists circles in the 1950s and 60s, friends with influential British figurative painters Lucian Freud ... to the same models for his portraits as well.