‘I like people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals, as Pluto my whippet,’ Lucian Freud revealed in 2002. Introduced to whippets by his lover and frequent sitter Susanna Chancellor, ...

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.

London’s National Portrait Gallery displayed its newly acquired Lucian Freud etching plates and prints for the very first ...

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 ...

Lucian Freud at the National Gallery — a modern Old Master ... but 14-year-old Annie tries to cover her nipples with her hair for the cruelly titled “Naked Child Laughing” — to Freud’s ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Lucie Freud – after whom Lucian, her middle and favourite son, was named – had attempted suicide following the death in 1970 of her husband, Ernst. When she was revived, Freud, who had avoided her for ...

How do you find a new angle on an artist as familiar as Lucian Freud? He’s been the subject of endless shows, not least at Tate Liverpool last year and the Royal Academy in 2019, the same year ...

The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to ...