Even here he disdained conventional parental boundaries: Boyt was still a teenager when she posed naked for her first portrait. She details endless, exhausting sessions. Freud painted obsessively ...

‘Double Portrait’, 1988-90, depicts one of Freud’s regular sitters with the Freud family pet, Pluto the dog. There are small signs that indicate the many hours of stillness required when posing for ...

A powerful self-portrait by Lucian Freud, on loan from the UBS Art Collection, features in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that explores the artist’s forensic gaze Lucian Freud, ...

In June 2023, the princess undertook her first solo public engagement opening the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition at the gallery after a three-year refurbishment programme. The picture ...

Born in 1856 to a devout Jewish father, Freud spent his early years in Freiberg, Austria, where both his father's lessons in reading Hebrew scripture, and church excursions with his beloved ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...

In the room devoted to the archives of Lucian Freud in London’s National Portrait Gallery, a strikingly tender painting depicts a young woman with waifish features, blond tresses, and enormous ...

Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud' is in Palm Beach through Jan. 5 before heading to Acquavella's New York gallery.

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 ...