Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

Lucian Freud, one of Britain's most celebrated artists, has died at the age of 88. The realist painter passed away at his home in London following an illness. With a distinguished career spanning ...

Lucian Freud arrived in London from Germany with his family in 1933, aged just ten years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. Painted in London in 1952, Freud’s portrait of his friend John Minton ...