Feature: He was one of our greatest painters, a charismatic man who danced with Greta Garbo, sired at least 12 children, cared nothing for money, was fêted by high society but put his art before all else... more
Andy Warhol took his place in the procession of high-priced art through London salerooms when his six-feet square 1967 self-portrait sold for almost £11milliion at Christie's... more
After spending his mornings sitting for Lucian Freud, his assistant of 20 years,
David Dawson, goes home to prepare for
an exhibition of his own work. Freud's studio is an inspirational place, he tells Ben Luke... more
Jake and Dinos Chapman are backing a fund-raising auction for the art college where they trained - in return for a brass plaque in the lavatories... more
Two dapper Parisians have taken over Berkeley Square and filled it with Ruinart-quaffing hedge funders, Egon Schieles, cutting-edge chandeliers and glamorous gallery girls. Ooh la la, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor... more
She rose to fame in her native America after painting Andy Warhol but remained unknown in the UK. Yet artists all over the world pay tribute to her work and feminists to her life — so who was Alice Neel?... more
Richard Branson's brother-in-law is selling his collection of post-war British art, including works by Antony Gormley and Lucian Freud, to raise money for his charity in Africa... more
Patrick Procktor was a flamboyant, witn society in the 1960s and 1970s. But the artist’s life was blighted by alcohol and jealousy. Gavanndra Hodge paints a portrait of a peacock... more
Turner prize winner Chris Ofili, who is famous for using elephant dung in his work, could be the next British artist to breach the £1million mark at auction... more
First it was our money, now it's our men. Not content with saddling us twentysomethings with mountains of public debt, the over-40s have started pinching our boyfriends too... more
By day, he sells work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud for millions of pounds; by night, he parties with Jerry Hall and Stella McCartney. Godfrey Barker meets Ivor Braka, London's favourite rebel aesthete... more
In a rare interview, grand old man of British art Frank Auerbach talks about his agonising search for perfection, 18-hour days in his Camden studio — and why he’ll never give up... more
At her Kentish Town studio, the Portuguese-born
painter, the subject of a searching new film by her friend Jake Auerbach, talks candidly about her troubled life, her extraordinary art — and her fear of insanity... more
How to rebrand Britain's foremost watercolourist for the exhibition-going masses? Why, bring in the genre's most recent celebrity convert, David Hockney of course, says Brian Sewell.... more
A Sotheby's sale of modern art in London has made a record-breaking £45.8 million with thirteen works sold for more than a million pounds each. ... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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