7 paintings you must see from Lucian Freud's first retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

BOSTON - Without a whole lot of anagrammatical labor, "modern master," which is a term most people in the art game apply to Lucian Freud, becomes "monster dream," which might well describe - to some, anyway - both the artist and his art. Freud might actually like that. Lucian Freud's biography makes bad boy Paul Gauguin - whose life and work I just dove into in these pages - look like a choirboy. A choirboy in a dark religion, admittedly, but still . . .

No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas, writes Tom Fleming

One of the leading portrait artists of the 20th century is celebrated in an exhibition of revealing, piercing works

Lucian Freud early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.

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Royal Academy, LondonWhether he’s just a shadow or staring at us, open-mouthed and wide-eyed, the great self-dramatist remains curiously unknowable

Lucian Freud, one of Englands greatest 20th century painters is the grandson of Sigmund Freud.

Frank Auerbach with his portrait by Lucian Freud Jane Willoughby with her portrait by Lucian Freud Jacob Rothschild wit...

Lucian Freud’s presence pulses menacingly throughout a thrilling show of self-portraits, while Gauguin, in a neighbouring blockbuster, sees himself as the suffering outsider

Jonathan Jones: Freud worked his way into the tradition of Constable and Gainsborough to release the deepest, most intense painting of recent times – as in this study of fellow artist Auerbach

With the paintings he called his ‘naked portraits’ and his aim to ‘make the paint work as flesh’, Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was able to reinvent portraiture. Although often controversial, his reputation grew to the point where Freud was hailed as the ‘greatest living realist painter’. In this survey, Virginia Button considers his life and work from a more distanced perspective than the many studies written during his lifetime.

For the first time, British artist Lucian Freud's extraordinary collection of etchings are on display in his birthplace, Berlin.

April 14, 2019If you were the sitter, you were the most important person in the world for Lucian,” says David Dawson, director of the Lucian Freud Archive and former studio assistant to the prominent British painter, known for his visceral, acutely observed portraits. “That’s a very strong feeling, when someone pays that much attention to […]

Lucian Freud’s presence pulses menacingly throughout a thrilling show of self-portraits, while Gauguin, in a neighbouring blockbuster, sees himself as the suffering outsider

Joséphine Bowes, Portrait of a dog, 19th century Naturally, for me Emma was the most wonderful dog in the world, but every dog has its own special beauty and character. A post dedicated to all our loving canine friends. Adolf Dietrich, Balbo lying on the lawn, 1955 Lucian Freud, Eli David Hockney Jamie Wyeth, Study of Kleberg, 1984 Anna Pugh Rose Sanderson Lauren Nassef, Serious napping David Hughes, Dexter, thanks to children's illustration Stephen Huneck, Sally Shino Arihara, Kuro Leia Bell, Frankie and Clementine Terry Runyan Maira Kalman, Well Susan Ping Zhu Mark Ulriksen, Ted in Heaven

The memoir Self-Portrait by Celia Paul details how she fell in love with artist Lucian Freud at the Slade in the 1970s.

Lucian Freud early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.

One of Lucian Freud's ex-girlfriends, Anne Dunn, recalls - in this engrossing first volume of William Feaver's biography of the artist - 'Sometimes, instead of counting sheep, I count Lucian's children.'

1. Born in 1922 in Berlin, Germany, Lucian Freud ultimately relocated to London, England, to escape the rise of Adolph Hitler and Nazism.