“Conversations” devotes two floors of the Marlborough gallery to the work of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, placing work from the two 20th century giants next to each other. The gallery, which has ...

London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has acquired sketchbooks, drawings, and letters by Lucian Freud from the artist’s estate. The artwork comes to the museum through the acceptance in lieu scheme ...

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 exhibition of portraits by Lucian Freud, who died last year, has drawn 175,000 visitors to London’s National Portrait Gallery, Lucian Freud. Photo by Stephan Agostini (Courtesy Getty Images). The ...

A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

LONDON - A vast amount of flesh - clear and smooth or wrinkled and mottled - is on display in the latest show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective of the work of Lucian Freud. Freud ...

This year marks the centenary of Lucian Freud’s birth – and London’s galleries aren’t about to let us forget it, said Laura Freeman in The Times. This autumn, “you can’t move for Freud books and shows ...

A 1964 portrait of Lucian Freud by fellow British artist Francis Bacon will make its auction debut later this month at Sotheby’s in London with an estimate above £35 million (US$42.4 million). The ...

“Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts March 1 and runs through May 25. In conjunction with the exhibition, the MFA is screening “Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait.” The film, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the past three days, Christie’s in New York City has sold over $1 billion worth of art, a frenzied spectacle that showcases the world’s rising class of uber-wealthy and its appetite ...

Lucian Freud, who joined the majority last night, may have been a Freud, but he was more of a Lucian: dashing, lucky, hero to men, a rare mystery to women and, superior to all, like Balthus and Manet, ...