“That’s a Freud?” critic Morf Vandewalt (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) asks Gita (Nitya Vidyasagar), an art cataloguer in Los Angeles. He gazes towards a large canvas in the corner of the room, a ...

Lucian Freud, “Man with a Feather” (1943), oil on canvas, 76.2 x 50.8 cm (private collection, © the Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images, all images courtesy ...

Lucian freud’s first one-man show was in London, in November 1944. He was not yet 22, his clients were mainly family and friends, and his pseudo-surrealistic The Painter’s Room was sold for the top ...

Naked Portrait with Reflection artwork by Lucian Freud. “Lucian Freud: New Perspectives” can be seen at the Museo Thyssen, Madrid, through June 18. Lucian Freud talked a good picture. As with his ...

One of the principal thrills of The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 is that we are in the capable hands of William Feaver, The Observer’s longtime chief art critic. Here’s how he ...

The first picture you see at “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” you could just as easily miss: It’s small and muddy, tucked to the side of a big block of wall text at the Museum of Fine Arts. Freud ...

"Hotel Bedroom" (1954) by Lucian Freud, oil on canvas. Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Enveloped in crumpled white sheets, Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood looks anything but ...

Plus, security guards will curate an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum, and the 9/11 Museum scraps anniversary shows due to budget cuts. Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985. Private ...

For Freud (pictured below right: Reflection [Self-Portrait], 1985) verisimilitude was paramount – naturally he was a truth-seeker. But you can say that's the case with most portrait artists. What ...

The first-of-its-kind exhibition in London gives you more than 50 ways to see the artist. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — In 1993, the British painter Lucian Freud, who had just turned 70, took on one of the ...

Lucian Freud’s 1984 Hayward Gallery retrospective was my first encounter with the artist. It was also the first exhibition by a living artist I had ever attended, and the exposure completely blew me ...

Lucian Freud, who joined the majority last night, may have been a Freud, but he was more of a Lucian: dashing, lucky, hero to men, a rare mystery to women and, superior to all, like Balthus and Manet, ...