Lucian Freud, “Letter to Stephen Spender” (1941) (click to enlarge) (all images courtesy Sotheby’s) Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we’d written in the notorious naïveté of youth ...

Thankfully the talking heads, intimates of Freud, created a properly personal portrait. The tension between the introversion of the artist, who died last year, and the extroversion of the lothario (14 ...

Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, admits there were some selfish reasons for his trip to London in late 2008. On one hand, he was going to negotiate on behalf of ...

Portraits, or rather paintings of people, were Lucian Freud’s speciality. He spent 70 years relentlessly scrutinising his own and his sitter’s faces and bodies and recording what he saw in paintings ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Kate Moss’s relationship with painter Lucian Freud will be explored in a forthcoming biopic about the ...

A collection of ten letters from a young Lucian Freud to poet and critic Stephen Spender will go on sale at Sotheby’s London as part of the Contemporary Art Day Auction on July 2, and are expected to ...

The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself. By Elizabeth Fullerton A major London exhibition asks viewers to ...