The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968Author :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 5 September 2019
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SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATORSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019â?~This exceptional book is far from standard biography â?▌ A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a tour of the immediate post-war art world, a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freudâ?Ts career and rackety life and loves â?▌ Leaves the reader itchy for volume twoâ?T SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEARâ?~Brilliant â?▌ Freud would have approvedâ?T DAILY TELEGRAPH â?~Sparklingâ?T SUNDAY TIMES â?~Superlative â?▌ packed with storiesâ?T GUARDIANâ?~Brilliant and compendious ... It does justice to Lucianâ?T FRANK AUERBACH'A tremendous read. Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR, NEW STATESMANThough ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver â?" about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freudâ?Ts own words. In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freudâ?Ts early childhood: Sigmund Freudâ?Ts grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho â?" consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret â?" Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young manâ?Ts coming of age. An account of a century told through one of its most important artists, The Lives of Lucian Freud is a landmark in the story its subject and in the art of biography itself.
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