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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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Can the British Council be saved?

New Statesman 12 Mar 2025
The British Council was founded in 1934 as fascism was rising across Europe ... In addition, it received an annual government grant of £165,000 ... Artists in the collection include Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and Tracey Emin ... [See also.
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‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and ...

The Guardian 10 Mar 2025
Painter Celia Paul has lived in the same flat in Bloomsbury – bought for her by her then lover Lucian Freud – for 40 years ... relationship with Freud, who seduced her when she was 18 and he in his 50s.
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‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

The Observer 10 Mar 2025
Painter Celia Paul has lived in the same flat in Bloomsbury – bought for her by her then lover Lucian Freud – for 40 years ... Lucian put a tap in the background of one painting – as if to say ... By this time she and Freud had split up ... “Lucian died in 2011.
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