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, ...

AAPGMAIN copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Summary In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them revealing, ...

Exhibition on Screen is a documentary series that explores the history behind works of art. Each episode focuses on a particular iconic piece, revealing the background that led to its creation and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exhibition on Screen is a documentary series that explores the history behind works of art. Each episode focuses on a particular iconic piece, revealing the background that led to its creation and the ...

Francis Bacon’s 1964 portrait of fellow British artist Lucian Freud sold for £43.4 million (US$52.8 million) at its debut auction Wednesday at Sotheby’s in London. The price, which included fees, was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A self-portrait of a badly bruised Lucian Freud will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London next month and is expected to fetch 3-4 million pounds ($4.9 million), the auctioneer ...