LONDON, England (CNN)-- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a ...

This edition of Heimspiel brings together the works of 23 local and regional artists (including one duo) whose creations summon the bizarre, the extravagant, the strange, and the whimsical.

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

Sigmund Freud forever changed how people perceive the world—and, more importantly, themselves. Freud’s theories on ...