New 29,000+ sqft contemporary art museum to open in Gibraltar.
18 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Opening in Autumn 2025, Fortress House is a new contemporary art museum that will be a major addition to the… Read More
Tag: Lucian Freud
Jonathan Anderson to curate exhibition celebrating London at Offer Waterman Gallery
31 August 2023 • Mark Westall
Opening this autumn at Offer Waterman, On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson, will bring contemporary artists into dialogue with iconic works of modern British art.
Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in early 2023
8 January 2023 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 exhibitions to see in museums to kick start 2023. Each one comes with a… Read More
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery
9 December 2022 • Lee Sharrock
A major Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery, jointly organised with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, marks the centenary of his birth in Berlin in 1922 and features 63 paintings spanning a prolific career of more than 70 years.
Gagosian opens Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews
17 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Gagosian to open Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill location in London.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Winter
13 November 2022 • Tabish Khan
Walking, optical illusions, tobacco, small art and Lucian Freud.
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits opening this weekend will be the first exhibition to focus on the celebrated artist’s self-portraits
25 September 2019 • Mark Westall
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits will be the first exhibition to focus on the celebrated artist’s visceral and unflinching self-portraits.
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits will be the first exhibition to focus on the celebrated artist’s visceral and unflinching self-portraits.
8 July 2019 • Mark Westall
Executed over almost seven decades on canvas and paper, the exhibition will bring together around 50 works that chart Freud’s (1922-2011) artistic development: from his early, more linear and graphic works to the fleshier painterly style that became the hallmark of his later work.
My week in the art world – Nature calling (indoors)
27 June 2018 • Staff
This week I set about finding as much nature in Mayfair’s galleries as possible –
Why Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy selfie would turn Titian on
12 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in history
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #73: The Interpretation of Freud
12 June 2015 • daniel barnes
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
COMPETITION: WIN a pack of Artists’ Trump Cards
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
WIN a pack of Artists’ Trump Cards
PLAY :The Art Game: Artists’ Trump Cards
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
Tate given artworks by David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Rachel Whiteread
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works of modern art to fill gaps in Tate’s collection
Francis Bacon’s body turns out to be Lucian Freud’s in self-portrait
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Experts at Christie’s conclude 1964 Bacon painting is of two artists not one after studying photos of both men from the time
Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Words by Lee Sharrock
20 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985 Private Collection, Ireland © The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive I arrived at the… Read More
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur goes up for auction
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
1955 painting of Bernard Walsh, who ran restaurant frequented by Freud and Francis Bacon, has estimate of £1.5m-£2m
Lucian Freud etchings to go on sale
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Forty-five prints, each estimated to fetch up to £70,000, will be auctioned next month
The Mystery of Appearance at Haunch of Venison
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
The Mystery of Appearance is a fresh appraisal of ten artists – Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Caulfield, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow.
Mystery of Appearance : Conversations between ten British post- war painters at Haunch of Venison Private View Wednesday 7th December 2011
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
The Mystery of Appearance is a fresh appraisal of ten artists – Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Caulfield, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow.
The Return House of the Nobleman Extended
24 November 2011 • Rachel Bennett
Following on from the success of last year’s ‘The House of the Nobleman’ art exhibition, curator Victoria Golembiovskaya presents ‘The Return’ viewing at Boswall House.