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.
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My week in the art world – Nature calling (indoors)
This week I set about finding as much nature in Mayfair’s galleries as possible –
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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
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #73: The Interpretation of Freud
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
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You can now pit your favourite artists against each other,
Continue Reading...Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
Continue Reading...Tate given artworks by David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Rachel Whiteread
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works of modern art to fill gaps in Tate’s collection
Continue Reading...Francis Bacon’s body turns out to be Lucian Freud’s in self-portrait
Experts at Christie’s conclude 1964 Bacon painting is of two artists not one after studying photos of both men from the time
Continue Reading...Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Words by Lee Sharrock
Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985 Private Collection, Ireland © The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive I arrived at the usually sedate National Portrait Gallery to be confronted by a throng of eager reporters, photographers and film crews from as far afield as Japan, testament to the popularity of one of the greatest British artists, […]
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