“He wanted to paint a person, not their likeness.” Naked Portrait is sub-titled “A Memoir of Lucian Freud”. Writing it appears to have been intensely cathartic for Boyt ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were ... befriending Francis Bacon and ...

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 ...

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, ...

An exploration of Boyt’s complicated relationship with her father, Lucian Freud, drawing on a diary she kept while sitting for him, which she found five years after his death. “A work of art ...

An exhibition of portraits by one of Britain's most important contemporary artists who died last year. The show contains work from the 1940s to his final unfinished canvas from last year.