14 days ago

A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works ⊕⊕

found 2026 › Feb › 13 (Fri) @ 11:43 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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

At home one evening in 1951, Lucian …

21 days ago

GLEN OWEN: A Notting Hill power dinner, chicken and chips with MPs - how Angela Rayner is plotting her Left-wing coup ○

found 2026 › Feb › 06 (Fri) @ 01:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

GLEN OWEN: Angela Rayner's host was Matthew Freud, the PR svengali and power-broker who is the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud and nephew of bohemian artist Lucian Freud.

29 days ago

Lily Allen and Jonah Freud pack on the PDA as they go shopping with Austin Butler in Paris ○

found 2026 › Jan › 29 (Thu) @ 15:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The singer, 40, has been getting close to Jonah, 28, who is the son of entrepreneur Matthew Freud and ex-wife Caroline Hutton and the nephew of Lucian Freud, since last year.

4 months ago

Moss and Freud review – Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 10 (Fri) @ 18:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

London film festival: The supermodel comes across as a dippy trustafarian and the artist like her soppy old grandpa in this bland, legacy-protecting depiction of their friendship

When Lucian Freud met…

8 months ago

Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon ○

found 2025 › Jun › 02 (Mon) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explai…

11 months ago

‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs ○

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 22:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting …

12 months ago

‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den ○

found 2025 › Feb › 26 (Wed) @ 18:11 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable e…

‘Lucian Freud was thrilled when Leigh Bowery stripped naked’: how a wild club kid became the great painter’s muse ○

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 07:48 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

When outrageous clubbers Sue Tilley and Bowery posed for the eminent artist, some of the most spectacular portraits of the century were born. Tilley talks about sex, cash and Bowery’s untimely death

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How Kate Moss bewitched serial womaniser Lucian Freud when she posed for THAT naked painting - as a biopic is set to explore their mysterious friendship ○

found 2025 › Feb › 02 (Sun) @ 21:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Moss & Freud - set to hit UK cinemas in 2025 - will explore the unlikely bond between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud, who together curated the masterpiece in 2002

‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best ○

found 2025 › Feb › 02 (Sun) @ 08:41 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate M…