Lucian Freud

The artist’s work is visceral yet beautiful, as a major new show in Paris makes clear

Festival celebrates the area’s cultural and architectural icons with talks and tours

‘Jewel of a painting’ dates from 1956, when Freud was a guest at Luggala, Co Wicklow

Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow

Letter said recovered painting was a prank made by two artists and a forger

The former Sex Pistol on Sam Neill, ‘nutty’ Tokyo and the star-studded restaurant The Wolseley

The bookseller and his husband Leon have filled their Dublin cottage with vintage finds

Music, musicals and movies to entertain you

Winners and losers in the autumn art auctions

‘This painting gives me a shiver down my spine,’ says Christie’s chairman

Ten highlights from the summer auctions

Pieces of me: Ruth Ní Loinsigh, boutique owner

The 50 pieces in Freud Project are invaluable opportunity to assess British painter’s work

The reclusive singer taps the fragility, beauty and discomfort of the emotionally afflicted

Artist’s portrait has been discovered on the reverse of works by Irish artist Tony O’Malley

The artist says he coped fine with the death of both his parents in Auschwitz – but does his modus operandi suggest otherwise?