Seasonal Sales Lack Spring May 17, 2008
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,' by Lucian Freud, 1995 ... Christie's also helped Lucian Freud become the most expensive living artist at auction by selling his earthy nude portrait, "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," to a telephone bidder for $33. (Wall Street Journal)
* Freuds Big Sue sets auction record May 15, 2008
PRICEY PORTRAIT: Berlin-born Lucian Freud is one of the most important contemporary artists ... A handout photograph released by Christie`s Images shows Lucian Freud`s painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which sold for US$33 ... A Lucian Freud life-sized nude sold for US$33. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Freud sleeper the stuff of dreams May 15, 2008
Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping , 1995, oil on canvas, fetches $A36 million at auction, breaking the record for a work by a living artist, previously held by Jeff Koons ... 4 million for a work by British painter Lucian Freud, After Cezanne ... Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping , 1995, oil on canvas, fetches $A36 million at auction, breaking the record for a work by a living artist, previously held by Jeff Koons. (The Age)
Lucian Freud painting breaks record May 14, 2008
A LUCIAN Freud painting sold for $US33. 64 million ($35. (The Australian)
Freud work sets new world record May 14, 2008
A life-sized Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman has set a new world record price for a work by a living artist. The 1995 portrait, entitled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, sold for $33. (BBC News -- UK)
You Paid How Much? World record sum for Freud painting May 14, 2008
A Lucian Freud painting has sold for more than 17m at auction, shattering the record for a piece by a living artist. Painting fetched a record sum. (Sky News)
Freud picture in 17m record sale May 14, 2008
A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold for more than 17m, Christie's said. The masterpiece, which was sold by a private European collector, fetched 33. (Ananova -- World Headlines)
Overweight nude sets art world record May 14, 2008
NEW: Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" sets record price for living artist ... LONDON, England (CNN) -- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a living artist ... Christie's calls it a "bold and imposing example of the stark power of Lucian Freud's realism," depicting "the forceful and undeniable physical presence of people and things.". (CNN -- Law)
Public to get peek at government's art treasure hoard May 6, 2008
Behind a nondescript doorway, down a narrow alleyway off Tottenham Court Road in central London, there are treasures by Lucian Freud and Sickert, Gainsborough and LS Lowry, Van Dyck and Grayson Perry ... In 1978 they bought an early Lucian Freud, a rather soggy Welsh landscape which few familiar with his later monumental nudes would recognise. (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
Sexing it up May 4, 2008
When Lucian Freud paints girl children, nobody cares; when Leibovitz photographs them, everyone goes ballistic. When Botticelli paints the yet-to-be-enjoyed goddess of love emerging from the sea, people come from all over the world to gape at her. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Freud's 'Big Sue' expected to fetch 18m at auction Apr 14, 2008
Lucian Freud's 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping' is likely to set a new record for the most expensive work by a living artist when it goes on sale in New York next month ... A life-size painting by Lucian Freud which has never been seen publicly in Britain is expected to sell for up to 18m, making it the most expensive work by a living artist at auction ... Christie's, which is selling the piece in New York next month, called it "the most important work by Lucian Freud" and predicted it could... (Independent)
Lucian Freud's JobCentre muse priced at 18m Apr 12, 2008
Lucian Freud's JobCentre muse priced at 18m - Telegraph ... Lucian Freud's JobCentre muse priced at 18m ... A painting of a naked JobCentre manager by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive picture by a living artist next month. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Record price expected for Freud painting Apr 12, 2008
Christie's employees hold a painting entitled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping by artist Lucian Freud at Christie's auction house in London on Friday ... LONDON - A painting by British artist Lucian Freud will likely fetch the highest ever auction price for a work by a living artist, Christies said Friday. (MSNBC -- News)
Freud painting 'will set record' Apr 12, 2008
A painting by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction when it goes under the hammer next month. The 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, is estimated to fetch between $25m and $35m (12. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Anthony dOffay Mar 2, 2008
Through the 1970s he held defining shows by the likes of Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George and Eduardo Paolozzi. In 1977 he married Anne, then a curator at the Tate. (Times Online)
A collector's item: art dealer's 125m gift to the nation is ... Feb 29, 2008
In the years following the opening of his Dering Street gallery, he staged a glittering series of seminal shows for artists including Lucian Freud, Gilbert e, Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach. In 2002 he announced his retirement and shut his gallery, sparking rumours of a huge philanthropic gesture. (Independent)
Artists' Nude Models Strike in Italy Jan 19, 2008
"But it can also be extremely physically demanding. Rodin used to twist his models into painful positions and make them stay like that for hours. Lucian Freud demands that you turn up punctually day after day. It can take years and you can t walk out halfway through.". The professional life model emerged with the rise of formal art schools and photography in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Fox News)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
More than 100 of Britain's leading artists, from Lucian Freud to Bridget Riley to David Hockney to Rachel Whiteread, today put their names to a condemning one of the country's most respected institutions: the British Council. It is a battle which has the potential to be protracted as well as acrimonious, and which is still largely shrouded in secrecy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Read Indepth Article Dec 31, 2007
Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings - Museum of Modern Art - absolutearts ... "Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings" 2007-12-18 until 2008-03-18 New York, NY, USA ... Lucian Freud: The Painters Etchings, on view at The Museum of Modern Art in New York from December 16, 2007, to March 10, 2008, highlights the artist's exceptional achievements in the medium of etching and explores the crucial relationship between these works on paper and his works on canvas. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Personal gallery from Kitaj's kitchen wall goes on sale Dec 21, 2007
And they don't come much more personal than Lucian Freud's pencil sketch of Francis Bacon with trousers unbuttoned and ambiguous smile. "The whole house was like Kitaj's studio," said Pilar Ordovas, head of the post-war art department at Christie's, just back from cataloguing the work at his last home in Los Angeles. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Lucian Freud stripped bare Dec 14, 2007
The achievement of the strenuously lionized British realist painter Lucian Freud has not so much been to break new ground as to dig incessantly deeper into the old ... Yet this impression may come to mind in "Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings," a riveting exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The winner takes it all in Turner show Dec 7, 2007
It was never going to tell the story of contemporary art in Britain in the past 23 years, but a wider choice from the shortlisted artists (thereby including Lucian Freud, Derek Jarman, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and so on) would have made a richer picture. Douglas Gordon's 24-hour Psycho isn't here either (it was considered when Gordon won in 1996, but wasn't in the Turner show). (Scotsman)
A life in pictures Dec 2, 2007
Moraes had been a famous beauty, known as 'the Queen of Soho' in the Fifties, wife of poet Dom Moraes, model to Lucian Freud, then Francis Bacon - Bacon did more than a dozen paintings of her. But she was also an alcoholic and by the time they met on 4 February 1998 at a Tate dinner for Francis Bacon, Moraes was in a bad way. (Guardian Unlimited)
Warhol's Liz nets Hugh profit Nov 14, 2007
The auction also set a record for British artist Lucian Freud. Freud's Ib and her Husband sold for $US17. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
$325 million Christie's sale reflects buoyant market Nov 14, 2007
There is no common aesthetic ground between Rothko, Warhol, Willem de Kooning, or Lucian Freud, to name only the authors of the five most expensive works sold on Tuesday ... The de Kooning could not be further removed from Lucian Freud's "Ib and her husband," done in 1992 in the British artist's realistically figural style. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Been and Gone Nov 3, 2007
He had come to this country in the 1950s to study art and became part of a group of artists which included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach, whom he called the School of London. But when he put on a major show at the Tate in 1994, the reviewers were so brutal that he more or less accused them of murdering his wife, who became ill during the exhibition. (BBC News -- UK)
Sainsbury leaves 100m of art to Tate and National Gallery Oct 30, 2007
The Hon Simon Sainsbury Bequest has been called "one of the most important bequests to come to the nation in the past 100 years" and includes pieces by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin and Henri Rousseau. The works will be split between the two galleries and will be exhibited to the public at the Tate next June. (Independent)
18 paintings left for two British museums Oct 30, 2007
The Lucian Freud paintingBoy Smoking is part of the Simon Sainsbury bequest unveiled at the Tate Britain gallery in London on Monday. . (MSNBC -- News)
100m artworks left to galleries Oct 30, 2007
British art collector Simon Sainsbury, who died last year, bequeathed 18 paintings from artists including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Lucian Freud. Tate director Nicholas Serota called it "one of the most important bequests" to the nation in the last 100 years. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes Oct 25, 2007
Instead, Mr. Kitaj allied himself with the great artists of earlier generations, particularly Cezanne and Picasso, as well as such contemporaries as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Mr. Kitaj belatedly attracted wide attention in the United States, beginning with a traveling retrospective of his work in 1981. (Boston Globe)
Sotheby's doubles price guarantees for New York art auction Oct 25, 2007
Guaranteed lots include Andy Warhol's "Liz," owned by the actor Hugh Grant and valued at as much as $35 million; a $30 million Rothko; a $20 million double-portrait by Lucian Freud, and Koons's "Blue Diamond," valued at around $20 million. Western contemporary art may be most vulnerable to a setback after appreciating faster than works from earlier periods, said Richard Feigen, a New York dealer. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Sotheby's more than doubles its risk in auction next month Oct 24, 2007
Guaranteed lots include Warhol's Liz, owned by actor Hugh Grant and valued at up to $35 million; a $30 million Rothko; a $20 million double portrait by Lucian Freud; and Koons's Blue Diamond, valued at about $20 million. Contemporary gains. (Business Report, South Africa)
Yue Minjun Wins, Damien Hirst Loses at Sotheby's Art Auction in London Oct 13, 2007
Hirst, 42, became the auction world's priciest living artist in June, overtaking older figures including Jasper Johns of the U.S. and Lucian Freud of the U.K., when a Hirst pill cabinet, ``Lullaby Spring,'' took 9. 7 million pounds including commission at Sotheby's. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
Portraits neither dress nor undress, but when Lucian Freud indulges in a category mistake, what with him being a modern old master and all, we all intone it after him ... When Alice Neel paints her naked self, palette in hand, at the age of 80 she is doing much the same thing as Lucian Freud in 1993, painting herself as she might any other subject. (Guardian Unlimited)
Beaverbrook Foundation to contest decision Oct 9, 2007
The foundation to date has spent more than $7-million in its battle against the gallery, claiming that all 133 works, including paintings by J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Botticelli and Lucian Freud, have been on loan from the Beaverbrook estate for the last half-century. Ownership of another 78 works in the gallery is being contested in the courts by the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation, headed by the current Lord Beaverbrook's cousin, Timothy Aitken. (Globe and Mail)
Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
Lucian Freud can hardly have been gratified to find himself shortlisted in 1988 and 1989, only to lose to the sculptors Tony Cragg and Richard Long. Cragg was first listed in 1985; Long had been listed in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 1989. In 1990, no prize was given, as the great and the good pondered the evident unwisdom of their proceedings. (Guardian Unlimited)
Gallery awarded $4.5-million in bitter art dispute Oct 6, 2007
5-million in a legal battle over paintings by famous artists such as J.M.W. Turner and Lucian Freud. Retired Supreme Court judge Peter Cory's much-anticipated decision follows his ruling in March that rejected the bid by the Beaverbrook Foundation (U.K.) for ownership of 133 paintings in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's permanent collection. (Globe and Mail)
What's the point of the Turner Prize? Oct 3, 2007
Since any prize must be partly judged by its omissions, here are some artists who have not won the Turner, and are now either dead or too old to qualify: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Paula Rego, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Helen Chadwick, Susan Hiller. They're not all my favourites, just artists with a reasonable claim. (Independent)
The Turner is not about beauty Oct 2, 2007
To preserve the dignity of the judges who, in 1989, preferred Richard Long to Lucian Freud. A Turner retrospective without Tracey Emin's bed - a loser in 1999 - is a history without the dirty, interesting bits. (Guardian Unlimited)
At sales of contemporary art, the cosmic effect Jun 29, 2007
86 million - achieved by a portrait of Bruce Bernard painted in 1992 by Lucian Freud. The British media man is seen standing with his hands in his pockets. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Arts Guide: Exhibits around the world Jun 27, 2007
and Max Ernst; realist nudes by Lucian Freud as well as more recent works by Louise Bourgeois and Tom Wesselmann. -- www. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
June 25 (Bloomberg) -- Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst and Lucian Freud were among the seven most expensive artists last week as buyers opted for newer works in a series of London sales totaling 441. 7 million pounds ($883. (Bloomberg)
$22.8m: artist's sweet pill to swallow Jun 24, 2007
Lucian Freud, who became Europe's highest-priced living artist earlier on Thursday with the sale of a 7. 9 million portrait, was quickly deposed by the Hirst sale. (The Age)
Freud portrait breaks art record Jun 22, 2007
A portrait by Lucian Freud has broken the record for a living European artist after selling for 7. 8m at auction. (BBC News -- Europe)
Hirst cabinet sets auction record Jun 22, 2007
Lucian Freud held the title of Europe's most expensive living artist for just 24 hours after a 1992 portrait of his friend Bruce Bernard sold for 7. 8m at auction on Wednesday. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Portrait by Lucian Freud earns £7.86 million at record-setting Christie's sale Jun 22, 2007
Portrait by Lucian Freud earns 7 ... Christie's "Bruce Bernard," Lucian Freud's portrait of the London editor, set a world auction record at Christie's for any living European artist ... Portrait by Lucian Freud earns 7. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Records may tumble at sales Jun 15, 2007
Three shimmering paintings by Monet and a portrait by Lucian Freud expected to set a world record for the artist are among the stars of sales predicted to smash European auction records next week ... The Christie's postwar sale includes a whole wall of Andy Warhols, including a rare portrait of John Lennon, major works by Francis Bacon, and a fantastic portrait by Lucian Freud of his friend Bruce Bernard, estimated at up to 5. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
At Art Basel, competition heats up the market Jun 14, 2007
" asked a bemused Anne Mosseri Marlio, as she was surveying the red dots beside many of the paintings in Paula Cooper's booth. The doors to Art Basel, the annual contemporary art fair here, opened promptly at 11 a.m. and 10 minutes later Marlio, a collector from Basel, looked visibly distraught. Works by artists like Kelley Walker, Sherrie Levine and Rudolph Stingel had already been sold. Steven Henry, director of the New York-based Paula Cooper Gallery, seemed just as surprised. "People... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Artists Stare Back at London's Dulwich Gallery: Review by Martin Gayford May 29, 2007
There is indeed a ``funny kind of look'' -- to quote Lucian Freud -- that self portraits often have. The one by the German romantic painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck has it, an intense, searching gaze. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Affaire in the Gardens to Feature Works by Peggy Nichols May 21, 2007
An incomplete world features paintings and photographs by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Morris, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman. Selected from The UBS Art Collection, one of the finest international corporate art collections, An incomplete world will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before travelling to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (AbsoluteArts.com)
News in brief May 16, 2007
The architect was devastated by the controversy, but said: "Wren was put on half pay and sacked before he finished St Paul's." Sir Colin donated to Pallant House Gallery in Chichester 20th century works by artists such as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Peter Blake, who were also friends. Maev Kennedy. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Call for Artists:2007 International Juried Competition May 5, 2007
Her biggest endeavor was the Lucian Freud exhibit (2003). From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity went up at MOCA's Pacific Design Center exploring concepts of domesticity inside homes and out. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Leibovitz unveils Queen portrait May 3, 2007
There are more than 130 official portraits of the Queen throughout her life, many of them on canvas, by a range of artists including Rolf Harris and Lucian Freud. VOTE Do you like the Queen's new photographic portrait. (BBC News)
Celebrity snapper Leibovitz turns her lens on the Queen May 2, 2007
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Bacon's trash sells for almost £1m Apr 25, 2007
A study for a portrait, possibly of fellow painter Lucian Freud, fetched 400,000; its estimate was 12,000 to 18,000. A study of a dog made 260,000, on an estimate of 2,000 to 3,000. (Guardian Unlimited)
Battle goes on for valuable art Apr 23, 2007
At issue in Mr. Cory's arbitration was the ownership of 133 art works -- including two masterpieces by Lucian Freud and J.M.W. Turner valued at more than $30-million -- that the first Lord Beaverbrook collected, then had installed in the Fredericton gallery that bears his name between 1959 and his death in June, 1964. Search the News Search. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Some Balthus With Your Mao, Sir? Apr 12, 2007
Wei's career took off a decade ago with work that combined those landscapes with frank sexual imagery, mostly of young Asian women revealing pale and wrinkled skin, their bodies clearly influenced by the work of Lucian Freud. But there was something of a turning point in Wei's style at one show in Beijing. (Ocnus.net)
In the spotlight again Apr 1, 2007
There's the private self, the man whose living room is an echo of 19th-century stillness and grace, with a low fire burning in the grate and, on a stand, a book about Lucian Freud open to a luminous photograph of the shirtless artist working in his studio. He mentions lending "Pynchon" -- the "Thomas" is superfluous -- a copy of Basil Willey's The 18th-Century Background. (Globe and Mail)
Francis Bacon's $30 Million Painting May Set Record at Sotheby's Sale Mar 29, 2007
He is among Britain's best-known 20th-century artists, along with Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and David Hockney, all with auction records of about 3 million pounds ($5. 9 million) or more, and Damien Hirst, whose highest known price of $8 million was achieved outside the auction room, when hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen bought Hirst's shark from Charles Saatchi. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Gallery to keep bulk of Beaverbrook artwork Mar 27, 2007
One painting he wanted to sell was "Hotel Bedroom," by Lucian Freud, one of the most critically respected British artists currently alive. The work is estimated to be worth US$5 million. (CTV.ca)
For sale: portraits that Bacon wanted to dump in a skip Mar 22, 2007
Previously unseen portraits by Francis Bacon have come to light among a collection of his possessions that an electrician saved from being thrown away in a rubbish skip 30 years ago. Mac Robertson, now 75, says he had been drinking with Bacon in a pub when they discovered that workmen had trampled over the debris littering the floor of the artist s notoriously chaotic studio. (Times Online)
5.7m painting breaks record for living artist Feb 10, 2007
Peter Doig's The White Canoe sold for five times its estimate at Sotheby's in London, easily beating record prices for modern masters such as David Hockney and Lucian Freud ... 92 million, and Lucian Freud's Red-Haired Man on a Chair, which sold in 2005 for 4. (Scotsman)
Local artist's work heads to New York Jan 1, 2007
Over the years, he's been inspired by Lucian Freud, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Hans Holbein and Max Beckmann. lot of artists have influenced me, he said. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Michael Jackson Ends Year Homeless and in Isolation Dec 30, 2006
Maybe Madonna can pick him up a baby the next time she s in Malawi Yes, that was New York literary couple Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi in London the other night, taking a table at The Wolesley vacated by famed artist Lucian Freud and his niece. The Pileggis are on a theater tour, followed by a nip over to Paris for New Year s I always thought Laura Bush was secretly very cool. (Fox News -- Views)
