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.

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 ...

Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, admits there were some selfish reasons for his trip to London in late 2008. On one hand, he was going to negotiate on behalf of ...

It is quite the oddest of the works by the late Lucian Freud. Painted from 1977 to 1978 in Freud’s studio in Holland Park, west London, the picture is neatly captured by its title, Naked Man with Rat.

On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the modern era, few artists have gripped ...

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 ...