A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

Sir Derek Jacobi plays the artist Lucian Freud in a forthcoming feature film but, in the pursuit of accuracy, it is not his hands that will be seen putting brush to canvas, mixing paints or wiping ...

The trove was donated by the estate in lieu of $4 million of inheritance tax. Landscape with figures by Lucian Freud, c. 1930s accepted by HM Government from the Estate of Lucian Freud and allocated ...

A 1964 portrait of Lucian Freud by fellow British artist Francis Bacon will make its auction debut later this month at Sotheby’s in London with an estimate above £35 million (US$42.4 million). The ...

Friends, family and romantic partners dominate the oeuvre of British painter Lucian Freud, whose work often documented his personal relationships. His children, who numbered more than a dozen, were ...