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.

Among the works on display is Naked Children Laughing (1963), ... disturb, seduce and convince,” Freud has been quoted as saying in The Lives Of Lucian Freud by William Fever.

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 ...

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.

An historic art collection, which has been on display for the past 100 years, is being removed to make way for a major new exhibition by Lucian Freud, Britain's pre-eminent living artist.

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 ...