They are not exactly the lost monologues of Harpo Marx, but the publication of Lucian Freud’s letters will surprise many students of the famously reticent artist. He abhorred interviews and ...

A collection of ten letters from a young Lucian Freud to poet and critic Stephen Spender will go on sale at Sotheby’s London as part of the Contemporary Art Day Auction on July 2, and are ...

He used paint not just to build up a recognizable image, but also to amplify sensations of presence through touch, texture and color ... “Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 ...

With 14 acknowledged children, perhaps 40 more unconfirmed, and more female lovers than is decent to count, Lucian Freud was ... the poet Stephen Spender. Letters written to Spender by the young ...

Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we’d written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers. It’s hard to say for sure what Lucian Freud, who died in 2011 ...

Unpublished letters and drawings by the young Lucian Freud are to be offered at auction in London beside a major portrait he painted later in life. The 11 letters, written by the 21-year-old Freud ...

Previously unseen letters by the then-teenage artist Lucian Freud to poet Stephen Spender are to be auctioned by Sotheby's. The letters include drawings and passages of surreal humour, such as ...

Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-54, David Dawson and Martin Gayford, Thames & Hudson, 392pp, £65.00, hb Is there anything left to say about Lucian Freud? The first published ...