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‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of Sotheby’s The Lewis Collection in June.

Evening Standard · May 29

Party dresses to muddy boots: Kate Moss’s best fashion moments

With a new film about the model out this week, it’s the perfect excuse for some Mosstalgia

The Guardian - UK · May 29

Moss & Freud: this anodyne portrait of their artist-muse friendship lacks dramatic bite

Filmmakers have long found artistic creation both a compelling and a frustratingly elusive dramatic subject. In the right cinematic hands, artworks can be made to speak for themselves – think of the dazzling sequence of canvasses that concludes Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic of van Gogh, Lust For Life. In the…

The Conversation · May 28

Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction

Sotheby’s said collection of billionaire Spurs’ owner Joe Lewis and daughter Vivienne expected to fetch more than £150m in June sale

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

‘It was life-changing’: the celebrated art historian who spent 46 years sitting for Frank Auerbach

Catherine Lampert is a historian, curator and model who spent much of her time sitting for her famous friends. She tells us what the likes of Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Euan Uglow meant to her

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Charli xcx's 'The Moment', the early drawings of Lucian Freud, and a murder mystery series set during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews · Feb 16

Jeremy King: I'm fed up with influencers overrunning my restaurant — enough is enough

As influencers flood his Bayswater restaurant, Jeremy King explains why an influx of cameras threaten to ruin dining out

Evening Standard · Feb 16

A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works

The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13

Euan Uglow review – No wonder Cherie Blair didn’t model for long, these pictures are exhausting just to look at

His work was so painstaking and slow to produce that the models – including a certain trainee barrister – often didn’t make it to the end of a portrait. It makes for paintings that seem drained of life

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting - A crude but illuminating treasure trove

4/5 This show concentrates on Freud’s drawings and while they were clearly casual works compared to his paintings, there is much to enjoy

Evening Standard · Feb 11