Lucian Freud

The former Sex Pistol on Sam Neill, ‘nutty’ Tokyo and the star-studded restaurant The Wolseley

The bookseller and his husband Leon have filled their Dublin cottage with vintage finds

Music, musicals and movies to entertain you

Winners and losers in the autumn art auctions

‘This painting gives me a shiver down my spine,’ says Christie’s chairman

Ten highlights from the summer auctions

Pieces of me: Ruth Ní Loinsigh, boutique owner

The 50 pieces in Freud Project are invaluable opportunity to assess British painter’s work

The reclusive singer taps the fragility, beauty and discomfort of the emotionally afflicted

Artist’s portrait has been discovered on the reverse of works by Irish artist Tony O’Malley

The artist says he coped fine with the death of both his parents in Auschwitz – but does his modus operandi suggest otherwise?

The convent schoolgirl fell for the artist, and they had two daughters

The book will list all of Francis Bacon’s works, including 100 previously unpublished paintings

Nick Miller was inspired by working in the late Edward McGuire’s donated studio

The 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosen

‘Nu Couché’ by early 20th century Italian artist makes second-highest price ever at auction

In his memoir Michael Peppiatt describes Bacon’s hedonistic and masochistic lifestyle

Painting of Andrew Parker Bowles to go on sale in New York. But what’s the Donegal connection?

Francis Bacon’s ‘Self-Portrait, 1975’ sells above estimates for £15.3m at Sotheby’s

Painting given by artist Lucian Freud to the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire to be auctioned in London

Fancy living like a duke or duchess? As an earl or countess? A lord or lady? You can savour aristocratic life in this Irish castle

Monet, Giacometti, Rothko and Lichtenstein among the big names making record prices

‘Les Femme d’Alger (Version ‘O’) sells for in $179.4 million at Christie’s

Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn

Paintings will go on show at Sotheby’s after they were rediscovered in private collection

A pretty study by Sieffert contrasts with a benefits worker in raw honesty by Freud

Painting has estimate of $140m ahead of Christie’s sale in New York

‘Two Studies for Self-Portrait’ sold in less than two minutes at Sotheby's in London

‘Double’ self-portrait goes up for auction in Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening

Work was painted in 1892 and is said to have sold to museum in Qatar

Painted in 1960, ‘Seated Figure’ depicts ‘transfixed and introspective’ pontiff

Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated

A testing fitness regime won’t make you a success, but it will probably make you dull

The Dublin-born artist’s piece ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards’ dates from 1984

Work acquired by anonymous telephone bidder after fierce competition for piece

Artist’s top auction price prior to Tuesday was a still hefty $86.3m

1969 piece raises bar and becomes most expensive work ever sold at auction

Rich collectors from around the world have driven prices to record levels