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Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction

Painting, based on black and white photograph, last exhibited in 1965 as part of a triptych

The Guardian - UK

Francis Bacon portrait unseen for 60 years to make auction debut

Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964

The Independent UK

‘She is dancing among the greats’: the dangerously honest, richly ambiguous Paula Rego

Art’s great storyteller has died at the age of 87. Our critic celebrates a woman of courage and freakish imagination

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Kate Moss to produce biopic about her portrait sittings for Lucian Freud

The biopic will cover the period that Moss sat for iconic British painter Lucian Freud

Evening Standard

‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud exhibition held at Freud Museum for the first time

Exhibition in Sigmund Freud’s family home in Hampstead marks Lucian’s 100th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

Previously unseen Lucian Freud etchings to be published for first time

Definitive study will include early versions of the revered 20th-century artist’s most famous creations

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Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul review – a woman in her own image

The painter conveys her spiritual connection with a fellow obsessive and ascetic artist in this fascinating book of imagined correspondence that lays bare the creative process

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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65 review – a magnificent history lesson

Bomb sites, barbed wire, figures on the verge of collapse… this exceptional show of art made in the aftermath of war speaks directly to present horrors

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