LONDON, England (CNN)-- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a ...

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 ...

The mirror of her eyes reminds me of the mirror in Jan van Eyck’s Marriage of Arnolfini, which similarly reflects the part of the room unseen by the viewer, and the colouring in Freud’s painting, with ...

Marie Olo, from the CPS, said: "Vincent Dyer dishonestly tried to sell a replica of a well-known Lucian Freud painting to make a gain for himself. "He claimed the false advert had only ever been a ...

A late Lucian Freud painting of Ria Kirby, an art handler at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is appearing at auction for the first time during Frieze week next month, with an estimate of ...

Getty Images Lucian Freud has been described as the "arguably the most celebrated British figurative artist of the 20th Century" The grandson of psycho-analyst Sigmund, Freud was born in Berlin in ...

Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings from the Lucian Freud Estate is on display at Tate Britain, London until Sunday 9 November 2014 The message reads ‘Dear Lucian, Many Happy Returns, Love ...

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Glimpsing death, he perceives its... Euphemism, evasion and propaganda are woven into the fabric of American public discourse, declares Time art critic Hughes. In a withering, salubrious jeremiad ...

The underdeveloped areas of the world are becoming the crucial battleground between Communism and freedom. What types of people in these areas are attracted to Communism"? What is their understanding ...

A show at the Grey Art Museum re-establishes Berthe Weill as a guiding light of the Parisian avant-garde. Her rediscovery has been led by women. By Hilarie M. Sheets The German artist Thomas ...