Lucian Freud
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Devotees of Irish fine art spoiled for choice in week of auctions
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
The week ahead is a busy one for fine art on the Irish auction circuit, with a dizzying number of superb paintings for sale. On Monday, December 7th,(...)

Boy who painted elderly neighbour wins Texaco Children’s Art Competition
- Education
- November 3, 2020, 17:08
When aspiring art student Casey Etherton noticed his neighbour sitting under a light in his grandparents’ home he saw in the moment a self-portrait by(...)

The perfect pandemic escape in Wicklow for €550,000
- New to Market
- May 21, 2020, 06:00
In a recent interview, U2 singer Bono clarified a comment about everyone being in the same boat during the current coronavirus crisis, by likening the(...)

Art in Focus: Jack B Yeats – Two Travellers
- Visual Art
- January 11, 2020, 05:00
What is it? A 1942 painting by Jack B Yeats (1871-1957). How was it done? It is, stylistically, later Yeats. That is, the period when the artist ha(...)

Garech Browne: The spendthrift Irish aristocrat who burned through millions
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 17, 2019
His parties and hospitality were unsurpassed, but a new documentary about Garech Browne paints a portrait of a spendthrift who eventually ran out of m(...)

Birth. Sex. Death: Francis Bacon’s tragic vision of mankind
- Visual Art
- September 28, 2019, 05:00
A MAJOR EXHIBITION IN PARIS, SPANNING THE FINAL TWO DECADES OF THE ARTIST’S WORK, MAKES CLEAR THE VISCERAL AUTOBIOGRA(...)

Make a culture date with Dublin 8
- Culture
- May 14, 2019
Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? Actually, it’s all about the last number next weekend. Eight. As in Dublin 8. D8. Or DO8 as it seems doom(...)

Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy sells for €6.7m
- Fine Art & Antiques
- March 6, 2019, 16:45
A Lucian Freud portrait of the late Guinness heir Garech Browne as a boy has been sold in London for €6.7 million. Head of a Boy was painted in 1956, (...)

Rare Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy expected to sell for over €7m
- Fine Art & Antiques
- January 31, 2019, 06:00
The late Guinness heir Garech Browne was proud of his portrait by Lucian Freud, which shows him as a young boy with a thatch of blond hair. Browne, w(...)

Stolen Picasso found in Romania may be fake
- Europe
- November 18, 2018, 15:19
A stolen painting believed to be T’te d’Arlequin by Pablo Picasso that turned up in Romania may be fake, according to reports. In one of the art worl(...)