Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...