London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has acquired sketchbooks, drawings, and letters by Lucian Freud from the artist’s estate. The artwork comes to the museum through the acceptance in lieu scheme ...

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 ...

Lucian Freud is the grandson of Sigmund “the couch whisperer” Freud, but through art he found an identity that was perfectly his own. Known for his cool-toned, realism-based portraits, Lucian ...

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 ...

Sue Tilley is best known as Lucian Freud‘s voluptuous model. When the nude portrait of her, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), hit the auction block in 2008, it sold for $33.6m (£17.2m), breaking ...

LONDON - A vast amount of flesh - clear and smooth or wrinkled and mottled - is on display in the latest show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective of the work of Lucian Freud. Freud ...

Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (1969) (screenshot via christies.com) As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” for a possible record price of $100 ...

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 ...

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 ...