Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, admits there were some selfish reasons for his trip to London in late 2008. On one hand, he was going to negotiate on behalf of ...
After nearly six decades in the business, only the rarest piece of news gives William Acquavella pause. The artist Lucian Freud ringing up the normally unflappable dealer to say, “Bill, the painting’s ...
“If you like skin, you should find people that have a lot of it,” Lucian Freud said, according to the catalogue essay authored by Michael Auping for a show of the painter’s work opening tomorrow at ...
On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the modern era, few artists have gripped ...