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1 week agoLucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review no, I don't want to come up and see these etchings
Lucian Freud's paintings show extraordinary genius, but the extensive selection of sketches and etchings exposes many mediocre, laborious, and occasionally awful works alongside masterpieces.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months agoMoss & Freud review: film exploring unlikely friendship ultimately fails to scratch the surface
The new film Moss & Freud opens with Kate Moss (Ellie Bamber) hurtling down the motorway, cigarette in hand, blond hair whipped back, redoing her lipstick in the rear-view mirror like a Hitchcockian anti-heroine. When sirens peal behind her and the police pass, Moss cackles. This sequence establishes the film's fixation as being on the model and unlikely, one-time muse of Lucian Freud (here Derek Jacobi), rather than on the artist. Sadly, it has little to say about either subject-or Freud's self-proclaimed search for "truth"
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4 months agoMoss and Freud review Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all
The film portrays Lucian Freud and Kate Moss as a mismatched, domesticated pair that fails to capture the original painting's drama and erotic intensity.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
7 months agoAn expansive monograph of Celia Paul paints a portrait of a single-minded, singular artist
Celia Paul, known for her haunting portraits and landscapes, trained at the Slade and had a ten-year relationship with Lucian Freud, resulting in their son Frank.
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8 months agoPeggy Guggenheim's influential-and short-lived-London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and London's Royal Academy
Peggy Guggenheim's influence on contemporary art in 20th-century Britain will be showcased in a major exhibition starting spring 2026.
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