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David Hockney’s curator: ‘His life has not necessarily been perfect but he finds joy in his paintings’

The Daily Telegraph 02 Apr 2025
It was, Norman Rosenthal says, one of those moments you never forget ... “I was 78. And I just swallowed hard, and said yes. Well, obviously I couldn’t say no.” ... Magali Delporte ... “Lucian Freud told me he remembered it.” His father was a professional gambler.
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Britain's billionaire club revealed: The 55 super-wealthy Brits who appear on the annual Forbes' list ...

The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
The 72-year-old's wealth has dropped from $16.5billion last year and $22.9billion in 2023 ... The billionaire is also famed for his extensive art collection which includes work by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore.
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A Consideration of Time: Celia Paul’s Monograph and Memory

New York Observer 31 Mar 2025
For 10 years, Paul was in a relationship with the painter Lucian Freud, who bought her the flat in which she lives and works ... was 18 when she and Freud became lovers, which they were until she was 28.
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Hockney says he did not offer to paint King Charles during royal visit

The Observer 30 Mar 2025
“He came on Monday for about an hour. But I didn’t offer to paint him.” ... The Bradford-born artist said in the interview that his pictures were better if he knew the subject “really well”, and he criticised Lucian Freud’s portrait of the late Queen ... .
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Artist David Hockney says he did not offer to paint King after house visit

AOL 29 Mar 2025
Of the late Queen, he said ... The Bradford-born artist said in the interview that his pictures were better if he knew the subject “really well”, and also criticised Lucian Freud’s portrait of the late Queen. He said ... .
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Behold the Frick

New York Magazine 28 Mar 2025
(Lucian Freud observed, “I can’t see Van Gogh’s Boots without Constable behind them.”) Constable knew what he was doing, saying, “There are generally in the life of an artist perhaps one, two, or ...
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The Art of Usefulness: Inside the Complicated World of Studio Assistants

New York Observer 25 Mar 2025
I don’t remember him ever asking me much about myself.” David Dawson, the subject of Lucian Freud’s Sunny MorningEight Legs, was the artist’s studio assistant. The Lucian Freud Archive.
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Esther Freud on the "brave and unknowable" Leigh Bowery: "Society doesn't recognise how inventive he was"

Harpers Bazaar 24 Mar 2025
They look so young and beautiful in their own kind of strangeness ... Like me, Angus and Cerith would sit for my dad [Lucian Freud], and we sort of invited Leigh in ... The Lucian Freud ArchiveNude with Leg Up (Leigh Bowery) 1992 by Lucian Freud ... Bazaar Art ... .
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What I learned from the woman who does 52 new things a year

The Observer 24 Mar 2025
Lucian Freud had breakfast and lunch at the same place for 15 years; the Famous Writing Routines newsletter drills down into the rigid (and less rigid, and absolutely baffling) daily habits of everyone from Maya Angelou to Dan Brown ... Share ... .
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Painter Catherine Goodman On Abstract Palimpsests and Other Realms of Consciousness

New York Observer 20 Mar 2025
A look inside Catherine Goodman’s studio. Photo. Damian Griffiths ... Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up ... I knew the school of London painters, that was the culture I was brought up in—Paula Rego, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff ... .
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Dawn of Impressionism, Paris 1874 review – impressive examination of key moment in art history

The Guardian 18 Mar 2025
Excursions into the comparatively offbeat – Japanese contemporary art, Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud – are balanced by home bankers, of which this account of the original impressionist exhibition in 1874, must be counted ... Inventing impressionism) ... ....
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