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 ...

The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images. UBS Art Collection ... In 2007, Freud began a portrait that took sixteen months to complete – requiring his sitter, the art handler Ria Kirby, to lie ...

Frank Auerbach has died peacefully at home at the age of 93. For seven decades he worked in the same Mornington Crescent studio, painting a small band of regular sitters, and the cityscapes ...