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Actor Idris Elba axes Battersea wine bar plan as he can’t find the staff

IDRIS Elba’s plans to expand his wine bar company into Battersea have been pulled, according to his business partner.

Evening Standard

Lucian Freud’s portrait of Wolseley founder Jeremy King expected to sell for £350,000

King is selling the work from his own personal collection at Sotheby’s, on October 15

Evening Standard

Lucian Freud’s etching of Wolseley restaurant creator to be sold

Artist dined at Mayfair restaurant almost every night in later years, and would sometimes share a table with co-founder Jeremy King

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Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at the National Gallery - unfortunately revealing

Freud was obsessed with the Old Masters; this show putting him in the thick of them doesn’t do him any favours

Evening Standard

How a National Gallery exhibition is giving us a new perspective on Lucian Freud

The largest exhibition of the artist’s work in a decade opens this week

Evening Standard

Pay what you can afford to see Lucian Freud’s controversial picture of the Queen

The first major exhibition of Lucian Freud’s work in 10 years will include that painting of Queen Elizabeth II

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National Gallery announces ‘pay what you wish’ scheme amid cost-of-living crisis

Visitors can pay as much or as little as they like with a £1 minimum fee for a new Lucian Freud exhibition.

The Independent UK

A wave of Korean art, the sound of Turner and Freud goes to the races – the week in art

The V&A’s new show is a dazzling historical remix, Tate Liverpool sets an English master to music, while Lucian Freud’s love for the turf is revealed – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

The Queen’s portraits - how countless artists have made an icon of a figurehead of state

Her face has imbued our cultural consciousness since she was a child

Evening Standard

From corgis to controversy, these are the most striking portraits of Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen sat for more than 200 official portraits during her reign and often let modern artists to do their own thing — which caused a fair share of controversy.

ABC News

Autumn culture guide 2022: From Lucian Freud to My Neighbour Totoro, Blonde to The Crown

We pick the new season’s highlights in our ultimate guide to what to book and binge-watch over the next few months

The Independent UK

Idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image dominated our age

From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhere

The Guardian - UK

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

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Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

The Guardian - UK

I can only stand in baffled awe as my husband’s novel is brought to life on film

Just as he couldn’t explain to me what inspired his characters, I can’t divine what he thinks of this adaptation

The Independent UK

Mexican icon Frida Kahlo to be subject of new stage musical

Painters have long been the subject of stage shows — think Mark Rothko, Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud

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From The Good Boss to The Kid Laroi: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you want a wry look at the workplace or some youthful, Bieber-assisted pop-rap, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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Turner’s turn-ons and Freud’s family affair – the week in art

The great landscape artist’s lesser known erotic art goes on show in London while Lucian Freud is at Sigmund’s house and Jay Jopling’s White Cube crew are off to the countryside

The Guardian - UK

‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review

The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch

The Independent UK

Lucian Freud exhibition to feature family photos and childhood drawings

To honour what would have been the painter’s centenary year, the Freud Museum in London is staging an exhibition from July 6 until January 23.

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sells for £43 million

A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for a record-breaking £43.4 million at auction.

The Independent UK

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud sets records in £43.4 million sale

The painting has become the most valuable work of art sold at auction in London this summer season so far, according to Sotheby’s.

Evening Standard

Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud set to sell for millions at auction

A Francis Bacon portrait of fellow painter – and Soho drinking buddy – Lucian Freud that has not been seen for more than half-a-century is expected to sell for more than £35 million this month.

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