This notorious artist fought trauma, antisemitism and his own worst instincts — Lucian Freud at 100
An ex-lover called Sigmund Freud's grandson, who fathered more than a dozen children, 'an evil man'
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The Schmooze Paintings By Richter And Freud Go on Auction Block
(Reuters) — An abstract painting by German artist Gerhard Richter will go on sale for the first time at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale in London, alongside works by Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol, Sotheby’s said on Wednesday. Richter’s “Wand (Wall)”, painted in 1994, has been shown in 20 museum exhibitions, including the Richter retrospective “Forty…
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The Schmooze Lucian Freud’s Ghosts Laid To Rest in Vienna
Lucian Freud did not live to see the first exhibition of his paintings in Vienna, the city his grandfather Sigmund fled in 1938, but he helped plan the retrospective that opens this week. Freud, considered the greatest British painter of his generation, moved with his family from Berlin to London in 1933 to escape the…
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The Schmooze Heirs Pay Tax With Lucian Freud’s Art Collection
Lucian Freud, a painter considered by many critics to be the leading British artist before his death in 2011, at age 88, was also an art collector, owning works by 19th-century artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Edgar Degas. Now, Freud’s heirs are donating some of his collection to British museums — partly as a…
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The Schmooze How Lucian Freud Found His Faith in Realism
In 1993, Lucian Freud, the painter known for his sharp psychological portraits of friends and family often sprawled nude in his studio, painted his own portrait. “Now the very least I can do is paint myself naked,” the artist said. Called “Painter Working, Reflection,” the work shows the artist, then 71, facing the viewer with…
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The Schmooze Avigdor Arikha: An Artist ‘Fervent in Adhesion’ to His Subjects
In April, 2010, when the Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha (born Dlugacz in Romania) died at age 81, he was praised for his sensitive figurative art, as well as his heroic life story. In 1941, after Arikha’s family was deported to Romanian-run concentration camps, his drawings of deportation scenes, shown to International Red Cross representatives, won…
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