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, ...

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 ...

“He wanted to paint a person, not their likeness.” Naked Portrait is sub-titled “A Memoir of Lucian Freud”. Writing it appears to have been intensely cathartic for Boyt ...

One of the notable pockets of depth in the UBS Art Collection is a group of fifty-four works by acclaimed artist Lucian Freud ... commitment from the subject. ‘Double Portrait’, 1988-90, depicts one ...