PHILADELPHIA — While Suzanne Valadon was commercially successful as an artist in her lifetime and saw her work become part of national collections in France, those of us outside her home country are ...

Painter and Model, Celia Paul, 2012. Celia Paul cried throughout her first sessions modeling for Lucian Freud. “The experience of being naked disarmed me,” Paul writes in her new memoir, Self-Portrait ...

Suzanne Valadon taught herself to paint while modeling for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. A revelatory new survey at the Barnes Collection shows what she learned. By Will Heinrich PHILADELPHIA — It’s ...

The British painter, Celia Paul, is an enigma. She is certainly soft spoken and shy, but under that is a fierce power that is at first unexpected, but then, as you get to know her, unsurprising. First ...

Romanian painter and model Cristina Szeifert is defending the authenticity of her artwork in the face of accusations that her photos are too polished to be real. The Instagrammer’s page, which has ...

The girl in question is Celia Paul. She was in her twenties when she sat for the painting; Freud was in his fifties. Sure, it’s that old story: the art student and the visiting tutor, a passion we ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it’s called ...

Like almost all modern artists, Georges Braque was caught in the propeller of his fast-flying onetime friend Pablo Picasso. But in Braque’s case it didn’t hurt a bit. Last week the Cleveland Museum of ...

Painter Ireland Wisdom’s life and art both merge a love of history with an immersion in the new and now. Growing up in a Los Angeles scene anchored by an eclectic community of artists, poets, and the ...

See some of Louie's masterful work applied to our'68 Impala. As a custom painter, Louie Carrillo has built a reputation for being a creative force in the custom paint game. From candies to patterns, ...