Freud was a painter who bucked trends in the art world to focus on one thing: people. "He would say to me, 'You know, Michael, if you're interested in the human condition, you have to study the ...

IT is a happy marriage of conceptual and figurative art. They would even have got the point in the Wild West. Lucian Freud, Britain's Grand Old Man of figurative painting, has taken the unusual ...

Carina Popovici, cofounder of the AI technology company Art Recognition, also said her research “classified parts of the painting as being by the hand of Freud” with a probability of “up to ...

British figurative painter Lucian Freud died July 20 at his home in London at the age of 88. The artist’s death followed a brief illness, according to New York-based art gallery owner William ...

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester What happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insights.

He is the subject of a two-volume biography by the British art critic William Feaver, “The Lives of Lucian Freud” (Knopf), the second volume of which, subtitled “Fame,” has just been ...

Little wonder that Freud considered himself up to the task of analyzing him. What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple?

A powerful exploration of artistic connection and mutual gaze, Seeing Each Other: Artists Through the Eyes of Artists is a ...

The poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was especially stunned by Freud’s collection. “I can not speak,” she wrote. “A lover of Greek art, I am automatically taking stock of the room’s contents.