Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met the artist Lucian Freud. The paintings he made of her in the 1990s are now among the most famous in modern art — and the most valuable.

A painting from the “Benefits Supervisor” series by Lucian Freud will arrive at Sotheby’s from the collection of billionaire Joe Lewis.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the past three days, Christie’s in New York City has sold over $1 billion worth of art, a frenzied spectacle that showcases the world’s rising class of uber-wealthy and its appetite ...

“Drawing is much more to an artist than just another medium,” said Mark Hudson in The Independent. For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in ...

This video allegedly records Lucian Freud’s last day of painting: July 3, 2011, roughly two weeks before he died at age 88. The film was recorded by David Dawson, Freud’s assistant of 20 years, and it ...

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud. His paintings of her in the 1990s are now famous, and very valuable. “Sleeping by the ...

"This beautifully illustrated book features fifty of Lucian Freud's portraits and figure paintings, offering an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most innovative figurative artists of ...

We all have one friend that gets us into trouble. For Sue Tilley, it was Leigh Bowery: part performance artist, part fashion designer, totally bonkers. Throughout the 1980s, Tilley would spend her ...

The British artist Lucian Freud is best known for his raw, unflinching portraits. But depending on whom you ask, these artworks are either brutally pitiless or intimately genuine. The figurative ...

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 ...