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Photographs, psychoanalysis and sex: four books provide enlightening studies of 'rock star' Francis Bacon
The artist seen from varied perspectives on his work and influences
ReviewBooks
Three books about Lucian Freud's life and work offer insights that do not always paint a pretty picture
Eccentricity and singled-mindedness were part of the great painter's character, but he had many unappealing traits
ReviewBooks
Lucian Freud the anti-hero: book relaying artist's philandering and impetuous behaviour is heavy on incident, light on insight
Second and last instalment of this two-part biography on the painter’s life fails to satisfy—but it does supply valuable first-hand records
ReviewGerhard Richter
Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné
The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles
Review
The grandfather of Post-Modernism
Picabia at his most brilliant, perverse and energetic
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The changeable Californian: on Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn’s four-volume catalogue raisonné reveals his variable styles
NewsReview
Despair, pleasure and pride: on the diaries of Eva Hesse
Her private writings are moving but share few of her ideas about art
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All together now: on the Francis Bacon catalogue raisonné
The complete collection of Francis Bacon’s paintings is published—at last
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A sickly flower of Decadent London: on the work of Aubrey Beardsley
The complete works of the illustrator, presented in all their “corrupting” glory
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More than dust on the surface: on Jean-Etienne Liotard's pastels
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When fame trumped political engagement
A significant shift in Gerhard Richter’s work can be seen in the most recent volume of the catalogue raisonné
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Portrait of the jeering artist as a young gent: Alexander Adams on Francis Picabia
The artist’s conventional beginnings belie his artistic proclivity for mockery. By Alexander Adams
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The art of the teacher: on the work of Hans Hofmann
The artist at last gets the recognition it deserves, says Alexander Adams
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Moreau, the mystic of Montmartre, was an unheeded prophet
Alexander Adams looks at the mysterious proto-Symbolist painter
NewsExhibitions
Complex talent needs greater understanding
Denmark’s Asger Jorn was far more than a painter
ArchiveBooks
Books: Have curators and collectors replaced critics? Paul Wood demystifies while Alistair Hicks disappoints
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
ArchiveLee Krasner
Books: Lee Krasner biography shows her at the centre of her own life, for once
Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, argues Gail Levin
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
"Painting the Absolute": Four volumes on Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering painter-priest of abstraction
Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life