CNN

Freud's large nude sets art world record

A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a living artist. The 1995 ...
Artnet

In Pictures: See Inside the Anxious, Twisted World of Lucian Freud in a Major Retrospective at London’s National Gallery

The National Gallery in London will bring together a selection rarely seen paintings by Lucian Freud for a major retrospective opening next month that marks the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth ...
Artnet

What Can a Major Museum Show of Lucian Freud Tell Us About His Market? As It Turns Out, Quite a Lot

London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist painter”—and was ...
Hyperallergic

Lucian Freud’s Wrong Turn

Lucian Freud, "Boy on a Sofa" (1944). Pencil, charcoal and chalk on paper,15 x 17 in. (38 x 43.2 cm). Private Collection, courtesy of Susannah Pollen Ltd. (© The ...

Lucian Freud’s assistant performs brushstrokes in Kate Moss film about artist

Sir Derek Jacobi plays the artist Lucian Freud in a forthcoming feature film but, in the pursuit of accuracy, it is not his ...
The New Criterion

Facing Lucian Freud

On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the modern era, few artists have gripped ...
Forbes

A Rare Look At Lucian Freud’s Self-Portraits Casts Light And Shadows On His Evolution As Modern Master

"Hotel Bedroom" (1954) by Lucian Freud, oil on canvas. Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Enveloped in crumpled white sheets, Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood looks anything but ...
Hyperallergic

Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View

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, ...
NPR

Painter Lucian Freud Dies At 88

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 ...

Sex clubs, cocaine & near fatal car crash – Kate Moss’s wild life laid shockingly bare in new movie… and she’s behind it

SHE racks up lines of coke to snort, leads her near-naked chauffeur into a sex club on a dog lead and almost gets killed in a ...
The New York Times

Lucian Freud

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 ...