Lucian Freud: Last News

Naman Ramachandran “Moss & Freud,” a film about supermodel Kate Moss and famed British artist Lucian Freud will be the next feature film for James Lucas.Lucas won an Oscar for live action short film “The Phone Call,” starring Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent. “Moss & Freud” is a dramatized account of supermodel Moss who, at the peak of her fame, made the decision to sit for British artist Freud. It was a decision that deeply impacted and transformed both of their lives.

Ellie Bamber (Willow, The Serpent, Nocturnal Animals and The Trial of Christine Keeler) will star as Kate Moss in Academy Award-winning writer and director James Lucas’ upcoming feature film Moss & Freud.

Kate Moss turns the tables on her favourite tattooist – by giving HIM a new etching on his arm.

John Lennon and Lucian Freud. The body of work, by notable Liverpool painter George Jardine, was owned by June Furlong and remained in her house when she died last November.

Brexit, Marian Goodman has closed in London and David Zwirner switched his attention to Paris.A dominant trans-Atlantic axis was visible not just in the auction statistics, which saw London closing the gap on market leaders New York, but in the title of “most expensive living artist” swinging backwards and forwards between the two. Going into 2010, it was held by Lucian Freud whose Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) sold in 2008 to Roman Abramovich for $33.6m (£17.2m).In 2013 it switched to America, where Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange) (1994-200) sculpture sold for $58.4m, then back across the pond in 2018 to David Hockney for his 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which sold for $90.3m.

Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova was as surprised as anyone when she received a phone call in 2015 informing her that thieves had stolen two of her paintings from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.

Bryanston, the Dorset-based independent school that numbers Sir Terence Conran and Lucian Freud among its alumni.  Fiona McCrindle, director of the Edinburgh Drawing School, adds that drawing “works the creative, right hand side of children’s brains, which is both relaxing and engaging for them”.A bulging art portfolio can also help children stand out when it comes to common entrance exams for some of the UK’s best independent schools. Strong, traditional drawing skills are essential because children will usually face a drawing test.

Two wallpaper prints designed by David Bowie are estimated to sell for up to £56,000 later this month.