1 December 2025 • Mark Westall
Drawing into Painting will be the UK’s most comprehensive museum exhibition exploring Lucian Freud’s drawings
10 June 2025 • Mark Westall
The exhibition is a celebration of London, its artists and institutions,
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
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.
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
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.
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.
13 November 2022 • Tabish Khan
Walking, optical illusions, tobacco, small art and Lucian Freud.
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.
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.
27 February 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
Both Sotheby’s (S) and Christies (C) have major London auctions this week, head to head in impressionist, modern and surrealist categories.
27 June 2018 • Staff
This week I set about finding as much nature in Mayfair’s galleries as possible –
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
12 June 2015 • daniel barnes
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
WIN a pack of Artists’ Trump Cards
14 August 2014 • Mark Westall
You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works of modern art to fill gaps in Tate’s collection
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
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
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
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
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Forty-five prints, each estimated to fetch up to £70,000, will be auctioned next month
