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William Feaver made a Midwestern pilgrimage in search of Grant Wood’s roots

Irish developer Pat Doherty is used to big money, so when he sells a portrait Lucian Freud painted of him for an estimated £15m (€17m) next month, it will be a nice pay day but probably not a great one, given the Financial Times has described him as a billionaire.

The sculptor’s chandelier, now export-stopped by the UK government, once hung in the offices of Cyril Connolly’s

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?

In a Victorian house in North London on a recent afternoon, Frank Auerbach, one of Britain’s foremost painters, was working in his spartan, paint

He has painted the same people over and over, sometimes for 40 years, dabbing, rubbing out, then starting again. Although the great artist now has to hold onto his easel to work, he still hopes to die with a brush in his hand

Perhaps the most over-exposed painter of our time.

No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas, writes Tom Fleming

Today's Water Cooler

We took the National Gallery’s centenary tribute to artist Lucian Freud as a prompt for a market deep dive.