LONDON, England (CNN)-- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for any work by a ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

Hours after Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon spoke out in support of Brigadier Roger Lane following calls for his sacking, it was confirmed that the brigadier is to be replaced. Then Downing Street ...

Freud was forced to flee Vienna with the rise of Hitler in 1938. His losses are recounted by Susie Boyt, a Freudian ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...

Born in 1856 to a devout Jewish father, Freud spent his early years in Freiberg, Austria, where both his father's lessons in reading Hebrew scripture, and church excursions with his beloved ...

This summer, The Revised Standard Edition (RSE) of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud was published on behalf of Rowman & Littlefield and commissioned by the Institute of ...

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