Emma Freud Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator. Emma Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, the ex-husband of Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's daughter. Painter Lucian Freud was her uncle. Her father's family were Jewish refugees. Freud was educated in London at the all-female Queen's College school and is an alumna of Royal Holloway College. In
Three Studies of Lucian Freud Three Studies of Lucian Freud Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud. It was sold in November 2013 for 142.4 million, which at the time was the highest price attained at auction for a work of art when not factoring in inflation. That record was surpassed in May 2015 by Version O of Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" series. Bacon and Freud were friends but artistic rivals. Introduced in 1945 by artist Graham Sutherland, they swiftly became close friends who met frequently. The two artists painted each