Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud’s Rembrandt project that never was
The late artist wanted to use a work by the Dutch master as inspiration for one of his final paintings
British artists dominate Christie's patchy £71.1m sale, as over-priced Koons and Richter fail to sell
Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen
Object lessons: from a Qianlong-era Chinese vase to a painting by the master of Nigerian Modernism
Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions
Lucian Freud’s late reclining nude makes London record at £22.5m
Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer
Thieves foil high-tech security at Kunsthal Rotterdam
Seven works were stolen as unmanned overnight protection fails
Why has the Tate still not claimed for its stolen Freud?
Although it was covered by British government indemnity, the painting’s value remains unclaimed since its 1988 theft
British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect
Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled
Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud
The London-based Russian billionaire has bought the record-breaking works; he has not previously been known to collect art
News from London: Peter Doig the family man, Lucian Freud the party animal
Meanwhile, Mark McGowan gets a helping hand on his commute while Richard Wentworth loses his marbles
The value of art: Economics alone do not explain painting’s revival
The medium always renews itself, especially when collectors feel prosperous
Tate exhibits Freud's largest ever retrospective
160 works now on show at the Tate Britain
The appeal of the surreal comes to Tate in massive new Surrealism show
It will be the first major exhibition devoted to Surrealism in over 20 years
Freud ramps up efforts to find Bacon portrait stolen in Berlin
A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie
London galleries: The naked Cubes
Sadie Coles in an eastward position, the Lisson and Tim Taylor times two, photography at Frith Street and Maureen Paley, plus powerful juju at Anthony Reynolds
What's on in London: Sarah Lucas lights up and gets Freudian
Subconscious probings at the Lisson and Fa1, White Cube takes on a disquieting new talent and there are spots before the eyes at Victoria Miro
Collector Paula Cussi funds Tate Freud exhibition despite export altercation
“Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings” is on show until 26 July
What's on in NYC: Best current exhibitions, October 1996
Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein
From the archive | Immediacy of experience: Robert Hughes's 1990 monograph of Frank Auerbach
The author of "The Shock of the New" is both literary and discursive in the first book-length study of the German-born, London-based, artist