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London: Lucian Freud dies

The artist whose spare but riveting portraits of ordinary people made him, according to art critic Robert Hughes, “the greatest living realist painter,” was 88, and succumbed late Wednesday to a brief illness. Freud “put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter’s social facade,” notes William Grimes of The New York Times. See Art

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