Lucian Freud is considered one of the most distinguished artists of the last century and the greatest portraitist of his time. While widely recognized as a painter, etchings are integral to the ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...

Born in 1856 to a devout Jewish father, Freud spent his early years in Freiberg, Austria, where both his father's lessons in reading Hebrew scripture, and church excursions with his beloved ...

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 ...

Lucian Freud, who considered using Kai as the subject of his 1995 Girl in the Attic Doorway before realizing he was too tall for the piece, also depicted his stepson in an etching from the early ...