“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifteen paintings and 29 works on paper by Frank Auerbach have entered Britain’s national collections, the Arts Council England has announced. Coming from the Lucian Freud estate, the extensive ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

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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 ...

The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself. By Elizabeth Fullerton A major London exhibition asks viewers to ...