Laughing, Lucian recounted how John's mother-in-law, Dorothy Hastings, had brought a baby gorilla to his studio in the back of a black taxi, but not before it had urinated on her and ripped her dress.

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives Through Jan. 22, 2023, at the National Gallery, in London; nationalgallery.org. Farah Nayeri writes on art and culture in Europe. She is the author of “Takedown ...

A $20 Million Lucian Freud Nude Makes Its Auction Debut. ... “In the first few months, the hardest part of sitting was trying to stop laughing,” she said.

Sigmund Freud fled the Nazis and came to London in the Thirties. Can this really be the same plant? “Well, I’m saying it is,” says Dawson, laughing.

"Girl in Bed," 1952. Lucian Freud's portrait of his second wife, Caroline Blackwood, is one of more than 60 on display at London's National Gallery in "Lucian Freud: New Perspectives." (Private ...

“Breakfast with Lucian,” Geordie Greig’s juicy, eye-popping book about Lucian Freud, the notoriously priapic painter best known for raw portraits that stripped his sitters bare in every ...

Lucian Freud’s longtime assistant talks about what it was like spending two decades at the artist’s side, while he worked on portraits of Queen Elizabeth, Kate Moss, and the paintings that ...

London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist ...

Lucian Michael Freud was born Dec. 8, 1922, in Berlin and went to England with his family in 1932. His father was an architect. Young Lucian saw a good deal of his celebrated grandfather while ...