Topic: Lucian Freud

The Measure

Pretty puddings: Dessert is the new It accessory. Photograph: Getty Images . Pretty puddings Knickerbocker glories in the new Vuitton campaign...

‘Famous names who snubbed UK honors’

Receiving an honor from Britain's Queen Elizabeth marks the pinnacle of many careers. . But for more than 250 people named in a once-secret...

List of honours rebels published

The author Roald Dahl and artist Lucian Freud are among more than 250 people who turned down honours from the Queen between 1951 and 1999 ...

UK forced to list people who rejected royal honors

British authorities have released a list of the more than 250 people who rejected royal honors over the past half century.. . The Cabinet Office's ...

Hitchcock, Dahl snubbed British honours

FILM director Alfred Hitchcock, author Roald Dahl and artist Lucian Freud are among the people who have snubbed honours from the British monarch ...

Don't call me Sir

Is it an honour? ... Lucian Freud turned down honours; Sir Fred Goodwin did not. Photograph: David Montgomery/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Murdo...

Why Do Artists Decline Royal Honors?

"From Lucian Freud to Roald Dahl, creative talents have long been rejecting honours from the Queen. But why? Maybe they just don t want to be part...

Freud's final painting to go on show in London

The final painting completed by Lucian Freud before his death in July will go on show for the first time at London's National Portrait Gallery in February 2012, the showroom said Tuesday.The unfinished "Portrait of the Hound 2011" depicts Freud ...

Colours, historical clashes in new London art show

LONDON (Reuters) - In the second in a series of exhibitions showcasing works from Britain's huge Government Art Collection, artist Cornelia Parker has chosen a rainbow color scheme to present her favorites.Parker selected over 70 works from the collection of around ...

British painter Lucian Freud dead at 88

Reuters / Sotheby's. Lucien Freud's Self-Portrait with Black Eye. . British painter Lucian Freud, whose fleshy, unflattering portraits made him one...