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, ...

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

One of the principal thrills of The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 is that we are in the capable hands of William Feaver, The Observer’s longtime chief art critic. Here’s how he ...

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 ...

It is entertaining, certainly, but it is also a singular mixture of biography and autobiography, answering to neither, and yet exceeding the bounds of both, while presenting a collaborative effort ...

“Lucian Freud: New Perspectives” can be seen at the Museo Thyssen, Madrid, through June 18. Lucian Freud talked a good picture. As with his friend Francis Bacon, it is hard to see Freud’s work without ...

Dwight Garner’s recent review of the new Lucian Freud biography Breakfast with Lucian by Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig includes one particularly strange and striking detail culled from Greig's ...

The plural of anecdote is biography. “I shall mark what I remember of his conversation,” James Boswell resolved after meeting Samuel Johnson. The painter and critic William Feaver resolved similarly ...

(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 ...