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 ...

Against a mood of anxiousness framed by last week’s Impressionist and modern art sales, and last night’s sale at Phillips, which all struggled to meet their lower estimates, Sotheby’s entered the fray ...

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 ...

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 York art dealer ...

On July 20 in London, the great painter Lucian Freud passed away. He was 88 and had long since established himself as the last in a line of English masters stretching back to Thomas Gainsborough, John ...

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

The year Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in Britain, its author, Roald Dahl, paid £2,850 for an oil painting by his good friend Francis Bacon. It was a fourteen-by-twelve-inch portrait ...

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 ...

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 ...

I like Pilar Ordovas: she is glamorous and clever. She used to operate in some very highfalutin capacity at Christie's but went it alone a few years ago and opened fashionably spartan gallery premises ...