London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist painter”—and was ...

“If you like skin, you should find people that have a lot of it,” Lucian Freud said, according to the catalogue essay authored by Michael Auping for a show of the painter’s work opening tomorrow at ...

In 1933, the 11-year-old Lucian Freud and his family fled Nazi Germany for Britain, said Bridget Galton in the Ham & High (London). Five years later, following Hitler’s annexation of Austria, the ...

“The experience of posing seems somewhere between transcendental meditation and a visit to the barber’s.” So says London art critic Martin Gayford about serving as a model for Lucian Freud, whom he ...

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...

Portrait of a Young Man, 1944 by Lucian Freud, Black crayon and chalk on paper In a luminous self-portrait from 1947 intended as a book illustration, he uses a variety of marks to create the ...

Three years ago, Rishi Sunak, now Britain’s prime minister, spoke during a parliamentary debate in London about the “Contribution of the Jewish Community to the U.K.,” specifically lauding the English ...

The British painter Lucian Freud, who was 88 when he died on July 21, proved with a bang the continuing vitality of the figurative tradition in art. In 1993, Time's then-art critic Robert Hughes, ...

Renowned portraitist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud died yesterday. His paintings of Leigh Bowery are some of the most brilliant from the late 20th C. but this tidbit from his Wikipedia ...

Before saying why Lucian Freud, who died yesterday, is the strangest case of my own personal artistic taste, let’s first remember a few things. It is difficult to imagine anyone in the profoundly ...

Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s most noted artists, has died at the age of 88. Freud, who was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, the pioneering figure of psychoanalysis, died at his London home on Wednesday.

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 ...