Bel Mooney reviews the three best artist biographies of 2024. Were these men creative geniuses or were they quite simply mad, ...
Caroline Blackwood’s tumultuous personal life has long overshadowed her artistic talents. Now, her bleak and witty novels are ...
Francis Bacon (Unfinished) by Lucian Freud. Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images In Study for Self-portrait from the ... at Eastbourne School of Art, where he taught her wood engraving.
Some of Sigmund Freud’s ideas are now ridiculed. Others are on shaky scientific ground. But psychoanalytic theory can help us ...
18.8 x 14.3 cm. (7.4 x 5.6 in.) ...
Apropos of not very much, we learn, for instance, that Ronnie Wood (of the Rolling Stones) collects the paintings of William Orpen; that when the artist Ronald Searle moved into a modernist house in ...
Increasingly given as presents, these commissions tell stories by building a family’s memories, secrets and in-jokes into ...
Frank Auerbach, one of the world’s leading modern painters and last survivor of the post-World War II London School of figurative art that also included Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon ...
You have to be ready to receive a painting by Frank Auerbach. The process of receiving takes time and unfolds gradually. When ...