A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after it fetched 142 million dollars in New York. The triptych ...
Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century ... He went on to study at the Central School of Art and Goldsmiths College, befriending Francis Bacon and associating with a ...
He was active in Soho's artists circles in the 1950s and 60s, friends with influential British figurative painters Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Michael Andrews. Auerbach was the last artist ...
Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and became one of Britain's leading 20th-century artists alongside Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon ... Frankie Rossi Art Projects said.
Frankie Rossi Art Projects, a gallery which specialises in post-war artists including Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, said the painter had died in the early hours of Monday morning at his ...