How to stay with this painful stirring? In Freud, the artist always did this best, somehow working at the limit of repression ...

Freud, considered one of Britain's greatest portrait artists, took 16 months to paint the work, with the subject -- Ria Kirby -- sitting virtually every day for up to five hours. "So a really long ...

A wellspring of outstanding worksby artists ranging from Alexej Jawlensky and Egon Schiele to Heinz Mack and Emilio Vedovawill be on offer during Dorotheum’s major auction week formodern and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art by the late Highgate artist Paula Rego, Sarah Lucas, and Tracey Emin is on display at Freud's former Hampstead home for a new exhibition ...

Just a fortnight after Christie’s opened a new 500,000 sq ft headquarters in Hong Kong, and having cancelled its June Modern and contemporary art offering, there was a sense of anticipation in ...

A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 months to paint sold for £13.9 million ($18.2 million) at a London auction on Wednesday, the first time the work, hailed as a "masterpiece," has come to market.

"It's the first time it's coming to the market, which is really exciting." Freud, considered one of Britain's greatest portrait artists, took 16 months to paint the work, with the subject -- Ria Kirby ...