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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, July 25, 2011

Girl with a white dog , 1951 - 1952. Oil on canvas, by Lucien Freud.

Figurative painter Lucien Freud dies at 88
The economist - July 22nd, 2011 14:57

"He wasn't cruel--he painted what he saw," remarked a robust model for one of Lucien Freud's nude portraits. Freud, who died in London on July 20, at age 88, painted raw and unsettling images of people he knew, often naked with skin of a pasty hue. The German-born artist, a grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, helped redefine portraiture in the post-war years. "Freud...comes at you in the same ways every time; flesh for flesh's sake; physical fervor; psychic frayed nerves," writes ...

A Degas Drawing that was reported missing or stolen and recovered by police in the Wildenstein Institute vault.

Guy Wildenstein claims ignorance of missing art

After 36 hours in police custody and under questioning, billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein is sticking by his claim that he knew nothing about 30 missing paintings held in his family ...

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