Lucian Freud’s most recent painting, “Night Portrait, Face Down,” just went on view in New York and has visitors commenting that the prone nude figure seems to be “plunging down through space.” “The idea is that when you stand back from it you feel a little dizzy,” Freud says. (Freud holds the auction record, at £2.8 million, for any living British artist, and the new painting has already been sold for an undisclosed price.) – The Telegraph (UK)