His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian ...

Sigmund Freud wrote: "From being in love to hypnosis is evidently only a short step. The respects in which the two agree are ...

Pain does not always produce strength. Sometimes it simply destroys people — not at the moment of crisis but long after, when ...

Last month, Sotheby’s said that it would offer the most valuable collection of art ever to come to auction in the United Kingdom this coming June in London: 50 lots from the storied collection of the ...

Artist said Man in a Black Scarf was not his but evidence has emerged to show he painted it when a student in Suffolk An early portrait by Lucian Freud, which the artist denied was his for years, is ...

The couch on which Freud’s patients lay became identified with psychoanalysis itself. He shipped it to London when he left Vienna. Ellen Jane Rogers Sigmund Freud waited too long. Throughout the 1930s ...

Filmmakers have long found artistic creation both a compelling and a frustratingly elusive dramatic subject. In the right cinematic hands, artworks can be made to speak for themselves – think of the ...

Executive produced by the model herself, this retelling of the £3.9m painting is glossy and watchable – but ultimately too surface-level Tim Robey has been one of the Telegraph's film critics since ...

It took four men to heave the 200-pound painting on the wall. Once mounted, the voluptuous nude body stands tall like a mountain against the pale wash of Sotheby’s London gallery. There are five or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In her long career, the fashion icon has rarely spoken about her private life. But now she's allowed it to be depicted in a film about her friendship with artist Lucian Freud. The iconic supermodel ...