For the past 20 years, Robin Katz has been trying and failing to leave west London. From the balcony of his apartment in Holland Park, he can spot the curtained windows of the garden flat where he ...

The trove was donated by the estate in lieu of $4 million of inheritance tax. Landscape with figures by Lucian Freud, c. 1930s accepted by HM Government from the Estate of Lucian Freud and allocated ...

A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself. By Elizabeth Fullerton A major London exhibition asks viewers to ...

“Breakfast with Lucian,” Geordie Greig’s juicy, eye-popping book about Lucian Freud, the notoriously priapic painter best known for raw portraits that stripped his sitters bare in every sense, doesn’t ...

Dawson (b 1960) is a Royal College of Art-trained painter, whose first job after graduating was to work for James Kirkman, then Freud’s dealer; he metamorphosed not only into Freud’s assistant, but ...

A 1964 portrait of Lucian Freud by fellow British artist Francis Bacon will make its auction debut later this month at Sotheby’s in London with an estimate above £35 million (US$42.4 million). The ...

Friends, family and romantic partners dominate the oeuvre of British painter Lucian Freud, whose work often documented his personal relationships. His children, who numbered more than a dozen, were ...