The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968

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The ferociously private Lucian Freud spoke on the phone for at least an hour a day for almost forty years to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. Feaver wrote down their conversations and typed up his hand-written account the next day. Feaver brings Freud's genius to life in this extraordinary, definitive biography, shot through with his subject's own words. In the first of two volumes, he conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, who escaped Germany in 1934 and was dropped into the English public school system. Following Freud through art school, his time in the navy during the war, and his post-war adventures in Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, with muses from Greta Garbo to Margot Fonteyn - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man's coming of age. Passionate and destructive, the young Freud blazes on the page, tearing like a comet through post-war bohemian London.