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?

Same old? A lot about this hit-and-miss new show at the National Portrait Gallery will feel familiar; the focus is the ...

Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

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 ...

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

The marvellous, insightful Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at London’s National Portrait Gallery shows that he ranks ...

Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View “Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling, ...

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A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

“The experience of posing seems somewhere between transcendental meditation and a visit to the barber’s.” So says London art critic Martin Gayford about serving as a model for Lucian Freud, whom he ...