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Artist Lucian Freud unveils his new muse First and last chance to see £100m art gift to the nation Lucian Freud slips into view Freud's JobCentre muse Hirst to Hockney at Hayward

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Ivor Braka: a rock 'n' roll art dealer

23.10.09
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

Minute waltz plays out for radio star and MP Clement Freud

16.04.09
Sir Clement Freud, whose eclectic career as a broadcaster, writer, politician and celebrity chef marked him out as a much-loved British institution, has died at the age of 84... more

Artist Lucian Freud unveils his new muse

31.03.09
Lucian Freud has a new muse - a fellow artist who has been posing nude for Freud in his studio for more than a year... more

What is really at stake at the G20

31.03.09
AS WORLD leaders arrive in London for the G20 summit on Thursday, British officials have been damping down expectations for a grand agreement... more

Face to face with Constable

20.03.09
Like most of his contemporaries, the painter of The Hay Wain started with portraits. It is as well for posterity that he moved on to landscapes.... more

Growing old disgracefully

18.03.09
Vivienne Westwood’s latest bad behaviour shows some oldies still have attitude... more

Now for the East London Line

19.11.08
Judging from the Prime Minister's rhetoric after the G20 summit, governments should be spending their way out of recession... more

Britpack artists campaign to save the £50m Titian

10.11.08
Britain's leading artists will deliver a letter to the Prime Minister in a bid to save a £50 million Renaissance painting for the nation... more

Freud the fraudulent

24.10.08
A small exhibition gathers Lucian Freud’s early paintings to trace his development – but it doesn’t tell the whole story, says Brian Sewell.... more

I'm hoping for a crash in the art market

23.10.08
This week, amid panicked reports that an unfinished Lucian Freud sold for only £5.4 million, I began to pray for a full-scale crash of the overinflated art market. What a massive relief that would be. I might even be able to buy a painting now and again. ... more

Modern art greats turn out to help save £50m Titian

22.10.08
A celebrated masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance was unveiled at the National Gallery, which is campaigning to raise £50million to save it for the nation... more

Freud's portrait of Bacon only makes low estimate of £5.4m

20.10.08
The last surviving portrait of Francis Bacon by his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has failed to reach its upper estimate at auction... more

Freud portrait of Bacon set to sell for £7m

14.10.08
A portrait by Lucian Freud of his good friend Francis Bacon goes on show in London tomorrow for the first time in decades... more

Now for a real art prize

12.09.08
City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more.... more

Never mind the £100m tag – these Titians are priceless

02.09.08
In his first interview since launching the campaign, National Gallery director Nicholas Penny explains why two masterpieces should be saved for the nation... more

Why Nicholas Penny wants to save Titians

02.09.08
In his first interview since launching the campaign, National Gallery director Nicholas Penny explains why two masterpieces should be saved for the nation.... more

Freud sitter destroyed painting in fury over double chin

26.08.08
Artist Lucian Freud was said to be furious after learning one of his paintings had been deliberately destroyed by its sitter... more

First and last chance to see £100m art gift to the nation

07.07.08
An unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important donations of paintings ever made to the UK begins tomorrow... more

Lucian Freud slips into view

18.06.08
The artist Lucian Freud has made a rare foray into public, allowing himself to be photographed in front of one of his own paintings... more

Boom for Bacon and Freud

19.05.08
A Lucian Freud masterpiece featuring a nude on a tattered sofa and a previously unseen Francis Bacon triptych are together expected to make more than £25 million at auction... more

Why the rich get richer while the rest sit it out

15.05.08
Record prices for Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon's paintings sold in New York this week symbolise the widening gulf between the rich and everyone else as recession looms... more

Arts director quits British Council post

22.04.08
The woman whose shake-up of the British Council's arts departments led to a rebellion by leading artists is to quit... more

Freud's JobCentre muse

11.04.08
A painting of a naked JobCentre manager by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive picture by a living artist ever sold when it goes under the hammer in New York next month... more

Art brings home the Bacon in £38m sale

15.11.07
The American love affair with 20th-century British art saw £38 million spent on two paintings by Francis Bacon at Sotheby's in New York.... more

What a shocker

05.10.07
By limiting itself to winners of the Turner Prize and ignoring all the shortlisted artists, Tate Britain's retrospective misses out on so much of the provocative work of the YBAs.... more

Hirst tops all living artists

22.06.07
The sale of a vibrantly coloured pill cabinet gave Damien Hirst the title of world's most expensive living artist... more

Portrait sets £7.86m record for Freud

21.06.07
A painting by Lucian Freud of a friend, set a new record for a living European artist when it went under auction ... more

Freud painting of friend set to make £5.5m

03.05.07
A portrait by Lucian Freud is expected to set a record for the sale of one of his works.... more

Sitter turns tables on Freud

06.10.06
One of Lucian Freud's subjects has taken a remarkable, intimate photograph of one of Britain's greatest living artists at work.... more

Hirst to Hockney at Hayward

05.09.06
The highlights of the Arts Council's unrivalled collection of British modern art will go on show in the Hayward Gallery this week.... more

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