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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      The Art Market
      Frieze reveals highlights, from £15mn Freud to stone-age axes

      Man Ray’s non-existent objects go on show; Art Basel beefs up management — and Barry the dinosaur heads to Paris

      A photograph of artist Lucian Freud holding his palette, painting a portrait of a middle-aged man sitting alongside the portrait on the easel
    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      The Art Market
      Buoyant mood and million-dollar sales at Art Basel Miami Beach

      Christie’s poised to break Goya’s auction record; Reuben family collection buys Bacon

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      House & Home
      Lucian Freud’s plant paintings ‘send shivers down your spine’

      On show at London’s Garden Museum, the works are as arresting and raw as his portraits of humans

      Portrait of Lucian Freud posing next to a painting of a flower and leaves
    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      HTSI
      Lucian Freud’s final etching

      The artist’s picture of Jeremy King is a poignant testament to friendship, an era and a bygone café culture

      Jeremy King sitting for Lucian Freud, 2006-2007
    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Lucian Freud at the National Gallery — a modern Old Master finds his natural home

      Acutely truthful portraits have a thrilling resonance with the museum’s collection

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      The Art Market
      Christie’s gets Gauguin and Joan Mitchell in $50mn collection

      Stanley Whitney sells work for charity; Freud centenary hits London; all change at Dickinson Gallery

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      The Elizabethan age
      A history of majesty: the Queen’s portraits across 70 years

      From Cecil Beaton’s coronation portrait via Warhol and Freud to a postcolonial image for the platinum jubilee, artists have shown humanity, politics and fantasy in that famous face

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      Collecting
      London sales show signs of buyer fatigue

      UK works sell well at Masterpiece; African art at Christie’s; Hôtel Lambert trove; new fair director at Art Basel; Deborah Roberts piece helps charity

    • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — lust for life

      The painter’s most creative and flamboyant years are brilliantly captured in the final part of this landmark biography

    • Friday, 8 November, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Self-Portrait — an uncomfortable memoir of life with Lucian Freud

      Celia Paul on her relationship with the successful artist and the power balance between an artist and the sitter

      Celia Paul Portrait 2016 Gautier Deblonde
    • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — born naughty

      The artist’s salty voice rings out in an indulgent and highly enjoyable biography

      "Lucian Freud with Caroline Blackwood and assembled wine glasses, Madrid, 1953. Private Collection"
    • Friday, 6 September, 2019
      FT Magazine
      Looking at Lucian Freud: photographic portraits of the artist

      The British painter was a compelling subject for photographers from Cecil Beaton to Henri Cartier-Bresson

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    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Modernists and Mavericks by Martin Gayford — a miraculous moment

      A study of British painting is a compelling account of a great time in modern art

      * WARNING £100 fee * Group portrait of artist painters (left to right) Timothy Behrens, Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews (1928 - 1995), having lunch at Wheelers Restaurant in Soho, London, 1963. (photo by John Deakin Archive/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 2 March, 2018
      FT Best ofExhibitions in London and beyond
      All Too Human : Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life — unmissable but infuriating

      A searching survey of 20th-century life painting omits some of its greatest practitioners

      ROZ - CHECKING THESE DETAILS CH1770356 Triptych 1974-1977, 1974 (oil, pastel and Letraset on canvas, in three parts) by Bacon, Francis (1909-92); 198x442.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Triptych 1974-1977. Francis Bacon (1909-1992). Oil, pastel and Letraset on canvas, in three parts. Executed in 1974. 198 x 442.5cm.); English, in copyright PLEASE NOTE: This image is protected by the artist's copyright which needs to be cleared by you. If you require assistance in clearing permission we will be pleased to help you.
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Portrait of the artist: Looking at Lucian, Theatre Royal, Bath

      Henry Goodman is riveting as the painter Lucian Freud in Alan Franks’s new drama

      Henry Goodman as Lucian Freud in 'Looking at Lucian'
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      John Minton: A Centenary, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK — fascinating

      A show of the British artist’s work reveals how much was lost through his early death

      John Minton, 'Jamaican Village' (detail, 1951)
    • Friday, 24 June, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Britart through the ages

      Attitudes to British art are changing, with classic works displayed — and sold — next to contemporary favourites

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2016
      World
      On display at Christie’s
      LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28:  (L-R) "Ib and Her Husband" 1992 by Lucian Freud, estimate on request in the region of 18 million pounds, "Portrait of Lucy Long, Mrs George Hardinge" 1778 by Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A, estimate 2-3 million pounds, and "Golden Hours" 1864 by Frederic, Lord Leighton, estimate 3-5 million pounds on April 28, 2016 in London, England. Christie's has unveiled three major paintings spanning three centuries for its Summer Sale to celebrate its 250th Anniversary.  (Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 1 April, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Gustave Caillebotte exhibition at Giverny

      Show reveals the innovative vision of a painter, patron and gardener

      Gustave Caillebotte’s ‘Linge séchant, Petit Gennevilliers’ (1888)
    • Friday, 25 March, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tracey Emin: from the inside out

      First monographic show in China features intimate works that seek to reclaim the female nude

      Tracey Emin, I love you, 2015
    • Friday, 5 February, 2016
      World
      A Freudian preview
    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      Georgina Adam
      Big-money trophies obscure a mixed picture in the art market

      It seems the outside world is finally affecting the market, writes Georgina Adam

      Amedeo Modigliani's ‘Nu couché (Reclining Nude)’
    • Tuesday, 3 November, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Richard Learoyd: Dark Mirror, V&A, London — ‘Powerfully evocative’

      The photographer’s painstakingly created prints are the antithesis of digital

      Richard Learoyd's 'Horizontal Male Nude' (2011)
    • Friday, 9 October, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Art sales and fairs in London

      From contemporary African art to Lucian Freud etchings, here is a rundown of what’s on offer this week

      Joseph ‘Paa Joe’ Tetteh-Ashong’s ‘JFK Limosine’ (2014)
    • Sunday, 20 September, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Face of Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London

      A new show in collaboration with Simon Schama explores British portraiture through themes

      Self-portrait by Gwen John; Simon Weston by Nicky Philipps
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