A powerful self-portrait by Lucian Freud, on loan from the UBS Art Collection, features in a new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that explores the artist’s ...

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 ...

Even here he disdained conventional parental boundaries: Boyt was still a teenager when she posed naked for her first portrait. She details endless, exhausting sessions. Freud painted obsessively ...