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Lucian Freud’s daughter on posing naked for him at 19: ‘I was shocked when I saw the canvas’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNothing had been discussed, I just assumed I would be naked. I got undressed and asked him what he...
Life with Lucian Freud, from nude modelling to vulgar dinner-parties
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoGruelling nocturnal sittings, punctuated by the salacious rhymes of the Earl of Rochester, concluded...
Paint Drippings: Everything You Missed in the Art Industry Last Week
Artnet News· 16 hours agoPaint Drippings is excerpted from The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s...
$27.7 million Bacon tops New York art auction sales
AFP via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoA portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first...
... Start to New York Auctions, Dutch Royal Academy of Art Cuts Ties with Israeli Art School,...
ARTnews· 7 days agoYork auctions got off to a relatively sluggish start at Sotheby’s established and emerging...
Younger Buyers Are Entering the Art Market. It’s Anyone’s Guess What They Want.
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoMillennials’ bidding behaviors and norms are still largely new to high-end art, a complicating...
They said Michael Chow was too Chinese to be an artist. Look at him now
South China Morning Post· 3 days agoWith backing from a business partner, Chow found a site in London’s upmarket Knightsbridge, and...
Why King Charles' portrait is so grotesque. Hint: It's not just the color
Salon.com· 3 days ago(Taking a contrarian view, art historian Richard Morris has said that “I really like the portrait,”...
Let There Be Light | Colin B. Bailey
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoThe Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings galleries, which reopened last November after a thoughtful, beautiful refurbishment and...
Sotheby’s Evening Sales Top Last Year, But Show the Market Is Still Skittish
Barron s Online· 7 days ago“What we saw is a market that is connoisseurial,” Lucius Elliott, head of Sotheby’s contemporary...