After nearly six decades in the business, only the rarest piece of news gives William Acquavella pause. The artist Lucian Freud ringing up the normally unflappable dealer to say, “Bill, the painting’s ...

IBF World Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute (21-0-0 17 K.-O.) is set to defend his World crown for the first time against a very interesting and decorated challenger in 3-time World champion ...

On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the modern era, few artists have gripped ...

At the conclusion of William Feaver’s exhaustive (and exhausting) biography of the first forty-six years of Lucian Freud’s life, in 1968, the British painter is pretty much on the skids. Always a slow ...

This first volume of two takes us to 1968 and its physical heft reflects the scale of the project, which began in 1973 when the critic and author Wiliam Feaver met Freud to interview him for the ...

Feaver’s narrative is shaped by the artist himself, who is rumoured to have paid his interlocutor off with a goodly sum to make sure the result was a posthumous publication. The result is the opposite ...

The first thing I will miss about Lucian is the phone going and just hearing: "Hello William". This would happen to me as many as two or three times a day, and I know that he was on the phone to other ...