When Lucian Freud, who died on July 20 at 88, was starting out as a painter in the late 1940s, he would bring sparrow hawks, bought in a pet store, back to his London house. "I was always excited by ...
(CBS News) The OTHER Freud, if you will, revealed the essence of his subjects with brush and palette just as surely as his grandfather Sigmund did by letting his patients talk. Anna Werner guides us ...
Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund, also explored the human psyche — through human physicality. His paintings were never called "nudes" — that's too polite. His subjects were "naked" — both physically ...
Even though British painter Lucian Freud died at the age of 88 in 2011, he just can’t stop setting records. In what’s said to be the largest amount ever bequeathed by a British artist, Freud left 96 ...
Lucian Freud, the British painter who helped redefine modern portraiture and figurative painting, died Wednesday night at the age of 88 at his home in London. “I could never put anything into a ...
“Breakfast with Lucian,” Geordie Greig’s juicy, eye-popping book about Lucian Freud, the notoriously priapic painter best known for raw portraits that stripped his sitters bare in every sense, doesn’t ...
Picture for a moment the dowdy holiday shopper who spots Geordie Greig’s new Lucian Freud biography, Breakfast with Lucian, at the bookstore and, taken in by the title and the old man on the cover, ...
THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...
LONDON — Lucian Freud, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said Thursday. He was 88. Spokeswoman Bettina Prentice said ...
LONDON — Lucian Freud, an uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said Thursday. He was 88. Spokeswoman Bettina Prentice said Mr. Freud ...