John Craxton was a great artist – but his real talent was for living life to the full
A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm
Common ground – the elemental forms of Bill Brandt and Henry Moore
The first exhibition to bring the sculptor and photographer together reveals intriguing points of convergence between their work
The great dictator – William Feaver’s biography of Lucian Freud, reviewed
The painter exerts the force of his personality from beyond the grave in the first part of this unconventional biography
The unsung art of Milein Cosman
Cosman was a fine portraitist who captured the leading cultural figures of her time
Christina Rossetti among the Pre-Raphaelites
The Brotherhood loomed large in the poet’s life, but she was careful to carve out her own creative space
The art of friendship in post-war Greece
The lives of John Craxton, Nikos Ghika and Patrick Leigh Fermor come under the spotlight at the British Museum
Keith Vaughan’s private drawings are full of hidden longing
These erotic fantasies reveal how painfully separate the artist kept his private and public lives
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