Lucian Freud

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  The top 10 self-portraits in art

  4 Sep 2014:

  From an anxious Lucian Freud to an enigmatic Rembrandt and a noirish Cindy Sherman, these self-portraits take the selfie to a new artistic level, writes Jonathan Jones

• Esther Freud: 'I realised the book I'd been writing for 18 months was awful'

  31 Aug 2014:

  The author tells Alice O'Keeffe about her memories of watching her father paint, and how abandoning one novel led to another, about Charles Rennie Mackintosh

• Frank Auerbach: a painter's painter of horrors and joy

  29 Aug 2014: Troubling, profound work owned by friend Freud will surely win new generations of fans as he prepares for Tate retrospective

• London should not hog great art works

  27 Aug 2014: Letters: Jonathan Jones’s suggestion that Lucian Freud’s collection of Auberbach’s work must be left to Tate Modern is insulting

• Frank Auerbach paintings and cards collected by Freud in Tate show

  26 Aug 2014: Works offered by Lucian Freud estate in lieu of £16m in tax will eventually be dispersed among galleries around UK

• Frank Auerbach: the master painter of deepest, darkest London

  26 Aug 2014:

  Jonathan Jones: Lucian Freud's collection of his friend's paintings have just gone on show at the Tate – but why isn't Auerbach's art, which digs deep into the pain of postwar London, permanently housed there?

• The slice of genius brought to you by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud – and Roald Dahl

  1 Jul 2014:

  Jonathan Jones: Study for Head of Lucian Freud, painted by Bacon and owned by Dahl, is expected to fetch millions at Christie's this week. It's worth every penny

• Lucian Freud's muse 'Big Sue' sketches a new career in art

  21 Jun 2014: Sue Tilley, the model for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, picks up her crayons and becomes an illustrator

• National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne to leave job early next year

  12 Jun 2014: Nairne presided over period of rising visitor numbers and sell-out exhibitions, but is leaving to pursue his writing and arts work

• Francis Bacon's portrait of Lucian Freud, owned by Roald Dahl, for sale

  4 Jun 2014: Children's author bought Study for Head of Lucian Freud in 1967 for £2,850 – it is estimated it could get up to £12m at auction
  

• The Kelpies: why Scotland's new public art is just a pile of horse poo

  22 Apr 2014:

  Jonathan Jones: Andy Scott's mammoth £5m horse sculpture has just been unveiled in Falkirk. It's big, bold and bland, but is it really art? Neigh!

• The top 10 male nudes in art

  10 Apr 2014:

  From Michelangelo's marble Christ to the sculpted torsos of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, artists have reflected for centuries on the raw beauty and tragedy of the male body, writes Jonathan Jones

• Jane Bown: 'I was born the wrong side of the blanket. On the kitchen floor'

  30 Mar 2014:

  On the eve of the release of a film celebrating her life, Jane Bown, the Observer's veteran photographer, reflects on her glittering career and her troubled early years. By Tim Adams

• Double trouble: The Kills on art's most controversial duos - video

  Video (5min 14sec), 24 Mar 2014:

  One great rock duo – the Kills' Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince – explore the greatest duos in art, from Gilbert and George to Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marina Abramovic and Ulay to Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery

• Francis Bacon painting of burglar who broke into his house sells for £42m

  13 Feb 2014: London auction house sells 6ft tall canvas to anonymous buyer for 10 times the amount it was bought for 14 years ago

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