Composer Jennifer Higdon discusses "Woman With Eyes Closed," her opera about an art heist making its world premiere at ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th ... He went on to study at the Central School of Art and Goldsmiths College, befriending Francis Bacon and associating with a group of ...

The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to ...

If Lucian Freud was an artist of monstrous talent, his life was full of monstrous behaviour. In the 20th century there were fewer checks on toxic masculinity, and a superstar artist was ...

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, ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a ...

Lucian Freud, one of Britain's most celebrated artists ... His stylised nudes were prized for their refusal to flatter or conform, marking the artist out as one of the most exciting names of ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...