Christie’s – Online Magazine No.204
Lucian Freud’s postcards to his first girlfriend reveal a voracious spirit on the cusp of adulthood
In 1938, Lucian Freud (1922-2011) met and fell in love with fellow art student Felicity Hellaby at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex. ‘It was never a very romantic affair from my point of view,’ Hellaby told Freud’s biographer William Feaver, ‘but it was rather fun.’
Sex and death in 1918 Berlin: a rare survivor from an important series by George Grosz
Offered in London on 5 February, Gefährliche Straße is a rare surviving oil from a series of around 20 paintings of Berlin by night that George Grosz painted in the final, desperate months of the First World War
A Futurist in London, and how he dazzled and dismayed with his radical visions of modern life
Just over 100 years ago, two seismic exhibitions of Futurist art took London by storm. The latter of the two — Gino Severini’s debut one-man show — featured La Ferrovia Nord-Sud, which is offered in London on 5 February
10 things to know about Tschabalala Self, the young star reinventing figurative art
An introduction to the young, Harlem-born artist whose radical works depicting black female forms are breathing new life into figurative art. Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
