Observer

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Bastard: New Lucian Freud Biography Focuses on Artist’s Id

Picture for a moment the dowdy holiday shopper who spots Geordie Greig’s new Lucian Freud biography, Breakfast with Lucian, at the bookstore and, taken in by the title and the old man on the cover, ...
Artnet

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon Were Irritable Sitters, But Painting Each Other’s Portraits Taught Them Valuable Lessons About Art

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
The Art Newspaper

Lucian Freud the anti-hero: book relaying artist's philandering and impetuous behaviour is heavy on incident, light on insight

The second and final volume of William Feaver’s biography of Lucian Freud (1922-2011) covers the period from the artist’s rise to stardom to his death. At a low ebb in the 1960s, no longer the ...
The Art Newspaper

Greta Garbo, the Blitz and getting arrested—Lucian Freud biography throws light on racy early years

The first volume of William Feaver's long awaited biography of the late artist Lucian Freud comes out this week, and if recent excerpts are anything to go by, it will not disappoint. "Freud met ...
The Irish Times

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth: rich and elaborate biography

William Feaver begins his intricate, densely textured biography with a remark made to him by the critic David Sylvester in 1995. Lucian Freud wasn’t, Sylvester said, “a born painter . . . [he] had ...