A nude portrait by Lucian Freud could set a new record for the late British artist at a London auction next week. "Ria, Naked Portrait" is the star attraction of next Wednesday's sale and is being ...

Filmmaker Jake Auerbach decides to offer a description of his friend Lucian Freud that's more truthful than the common media image by asking a number of people who have sat for Freud's portraits ...

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 ...

A powerful self-portrait by Lucian Freud, on loan from the UBS Art Collection, features in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that explores the artist’s ...

“He wanted to paint a person, not their likeness.” Naked Portrait is sub-titled “A Memoir of Lucian Freud”. Writing it appears to have been intensely cathartic for Boyt ...

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

Rose Boyt discusses her intriguing and painterly new book, Naked Portrait, a very personal account of sitting for a portrait by her father Lucian Freud. Please accept functional and analytics cookies ...