A portrait by Lucian Freud that has been out of public view for more than two decades will be auctioned in London this month. The painting, depicting one of the artist’s daughters, is expected to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the past three days, Christie’s in New York City has sold over $1 billion worth of art, a frenzied spectacle that showcases the world’s rising class of uber-wealthy and its appetite ...

A significant collection of previously unseen works by British artist Lucian Freud is set to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery early next year, marking the UK’s most comprehensive museum ...

This video allegedly records Lucian Freud’s last day of painting: July 3, 2011, roughly two weeks before he died at age 88. The film was recorded by David Dawson, Freud’s assistant of 20 years, and it ...

Lucian Freud, "Boy on a Sofa" (1944). Pencil, charcoal and chalk on paper,15 x 17 in. (38 x 43.2 cm). Private Collection, courtesy of Susannah Pollen Ltd. (© The ...

Both born in Berlin and brought to England as children to save them from the Nazis, Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) and Lucian Freud (1922–2011) shared more than a similar destiny: they were linked in close ...

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 ...

Portraits, or rather paintings of people, were Lucian Freud’s speciality. He spent 70 years relentlessly scrutinising his own and his sitter’s faces and bodies and recording what he saw in paintings ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British figurative painter Lucian Freud, whose uncompromising, fleshy portraits made him one of the world's most revered and coveted artists, has died aged 88. His long-time New ...

The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself. By Elizabeth Fullerton A major London exhibition asks viewers to ...