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 ...

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 ...

A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

A portrait of David Hockney by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s in London during a British modern art evening sale on Tuesday for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium. The portrait is now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View “Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling, ...

The final painting depicts “[Freud’s] assistant David Dawson and his faithful whippet Eli,” according to the paper. Before his death this past July, Freud had been working on the piece for the last ...

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 ...

The British painter Lucian Freud, who was 88 when he died on July 21, proved with a bang the continuing vitality of the figurative tradition in art. In 1993, Time's then-art critic Robert Hughes, ...