It seems there are just way too many deaths in the art community this year.

I am sorry to report that Wednesday night saw the passing of Lucien Freud. After a brief illness, he died in his home at the age of 88. Dubbed “The greatest living realist” by one art critic in the 1980’s, Lucien’s work was the subject of a large retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1993.

Read more about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/lucian-freud-adept-portraiture-artist-dies-at-88.html?_r=1