A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases drawings and etchings from throughout the British ...

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on?

The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently ...

The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory ...

Following a wayward adolescence, Freud emerged during the 1940s as a boy wonder. He drew in a hyper-realistic manner that was ...

This show concentrates on Freud’s drawings and while they were clearly casual works compared to his paintings, there is much ...

After nearly six decades in the business, only the rarest piece of news gives William Acquavella pause. The artist Lucian Freud ringing up the normally unflappable dealer to say, “Bill, the painting’s ...

Lucian Freud’s drawings show the artist at his most spontaneous and personal - 4/5 From teenage sketches to etchings of his daughter Bella, an exhibition of Freud’s drawings at the National Portrait G ...

London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist painter”—and was ...

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...

From teenage sketches to etchings of his daughter Bella, an exhibition of Freud’s drawings at the National Portrait Gallery gives a fascinating and essential insight into a painter we think we know ...