The first picture you see at “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” you could just as easily miss: It’s small and muddy, tucked to the side of a big block of wall text at the Museum of Fine Arts. Freud ...

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 ...

“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...

One of the first images in the Royal Academy’s splendid exhibition is an ink drawing made in 1949 for a book on Greek myths. Freud casts himself as Actaeon who, according to the myth, accidentally ...

Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View “Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling, ...

Lucian Freud, who joined the majority last night, may have been a Freud, but he was more of a Lucian: dashing, lucky, hero to men, a rare mystery to women and, superior to all, like Balthus and Manet, ...

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 ...