Lucian Freud, Kai, (1991-1992). Courtesy Christie's Friends, family and romantic partners dominate the oeuvre of British painter Lucian Freud, whose work often documented his personal relationships.

The massed anecdotes of his first 46 years suggest a similar attention to nudes and nihilism. Born in Berlin in 1922, Lucian was Sigmund Freud ’s grandson and his mother’s favorite.

The royal family's personal art collection contains gifts from the likes of Lucian Freud and Marc Chagall, among others. The Garden Room at Clarence House, with Leandro Bassano's painting of Noah ...

A portrait Lucian Freud painted of his daughter Isobel in 1997 will make its auction debut on March 1 at Sotheby’s London, with an estimate of between £15 million and £20 million (US$18 ...

Boston Right before his 70th birthday in 1992, Lucian Freud said, “Now the very least I can do is to paint myself naked.” Although he was alluding to artistic compensation for all the ...

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 ...

Lucian Freud’s nudes from the 1990s and 2000s; a Gretchen Bender retrospective revisits her TV-based installations; and artists address social justice issues in “Perilous Bodies.” ...

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 ...

In conjunction with the exhibition, the MFA is screening “Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait.” The film, which is part of the fine-arts documentary series Exhibition on Screen, will be shown March ...

In 1933, the 11-year-old Lucian Freud and his family fled Nazi Germany for Britain, said Bridget Galton in the Ham & High (London). Five years later, following Hitler’s annexation of Austria ...

Freud was born in Berlin in 1922 to a well-off German family who fled the Nazis for Britain in 1933 and became British citizens in 1939. He went to several schools but is said to have attended few ...