In this arresting new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the artist's ability to capture the essence of those he ...

First they came for Sir Winston Churchill’s urinal, then they dispatched Margaret Thatcher in favour of lyrical landscapes, ...

One evening in 1954, Lucian Freud entered Esmeralda’s ... the most revolting person I had ever seen in my life’, Freud asked Litvinoff to sit for him. ‘I thought, well, I can do a self-portrait ...

A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 months to paint sold for £13.9 million ($18.2 million) at a London auction on Wednesday, ...

London (AFP) – A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 ... which is really exciting." Freud, considered one of Britain's greatest portrait artists, took 16 months to paint the work, with the subject ...