Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes ... He went on to study at the Central School ...

If Lucian Freud was an artist of monstrous talent, his life was full of monstrous behaviour. In the 20th century there were fewer checks on toxic masculinity, and a superstar artist was ...

Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and became one of Britain's leading 20th-century artists alongside Lucian ...

Masterpieces from Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach will be displayed at Sotheby’s as part of their summer exhibition celebrating Britain as an artistic ‘cultural melting pot’.