If Lucian Freud was an artist of monstrous talent, his life was full of monstrous behaviour. In the 20th century there were fewer checks on toxic masculinity, and a superstar artist was ...

Acquavella Galleries is presenting Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud, a group exhibition exploring portraiture, with paintings and sculptures spanning over a century and different styles of ...

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Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...