The British painter Lucian Freud, who was 88 when he died on July 21, proved with a bang the continuing vitality of the figurative tradition in art. In 1993, Time's then-art critic Robert Hughes, ...

Foreword signed by Henry Meyric Hughes and Andrea Rose. Exhibition on view at four museums, including Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15-Nov.