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 ...

The original 5in by 7in painting (12.7cm by 17.8cm ... Frank Barratt/Getty Images Lucian Freud (pictured) and his friend Francis Bacon produced several different pieces of each other In the ...

Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Dame Lucie Rie are included ... For the most part, it was Freud who selected the sitter for his paintings, but in this case, it was Minton who commissioned the ...

Moraes and Bacon met in a bar in 1949 ... She was also briefly a lover of Lucian Freud, who depicted her in a 1952 painting called Girl in a Blanket. According to her autobiography, the pair ...

Lucian Freud ... psychologist Sigmund Freud. In 1933, he moved with his family to London to escape the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime. He went on to study at the Central School of Art and ...

Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon ... and fellow artist Lucien Freud sold for $142m in New York. At the time, Three Studies of Lucian Freud was the most ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... individuals who sat regularly for Bacon and with whom he remained preoccupied for decades – including Lucian Freud, Soho’s Colony Room proprietor Muriel ...

Artist and craftsman, proto-installation artist, grandmaster of striking stagings, and one of Auguste Rodin’s competitors—Medardo Rosso numbered among the great trailblazers of modernity.

Dellasposa are presenting Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia, a group exhibition featuring more than seventy artists associated with legendary Soho club, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...

Despite his fame as both a flâneur and bon viveur, Francis ... including Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne, as well as his lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer, of whom Bacon’s portraits are ...