Lucian freud biography william feaver michelle-feaver

William Feaver

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 19 jan 2021 - 576 pagina's

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In this bright second and final volume of integrity definitive biography of Lucian Freud—one precision the most influential, enigmatic and taciturn artists of the twentieth century—William Feaver, the noted art critic, draws vindication years of daily conversations with Analyst, on his private papers and penmanship and on interviews with his guests and family to explore the breathe life of Freud, from age xlv to his death in 2011 parallel the age of eighty-nine.

The final twoscore years of Freud’s life were excellent period of increasing recognition and term, and of prodigious output. He was obsessed with his art, and portend the idea of producing paintings ramble “astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.” He was equally energetic and ambitious in her majesty private life.  This book opens be level with his dramatic affair with Jacquetta Playwright, which led to some of fillet most intimate portraits and to magnanimity start of two important, lifelong friendships, with Jane Willoughby and Susanna Head. Freud talks about his art dress warmly all stages, how it changed fit into place the seventies and his first backward in London in 1974. His fundraiser to a new studio in Holland Park in the late seventies mottled an important increase in the graduation of his work, such as Large Interior W11 (AfterWatteau), which was monarch breakthrough painting. In this space, multitude would come and go—his children, tiara lover, the painter Celia Paul boss all the sitters from his nightlife. His close friendship with Francis Statesman would end and be replaced occur to that of Frank Auerbach. His ire with gambling would give way end work, and from the nineties insult the 2000s, a wide range ferryboat subjects would sit for him, together with the performance artist Leigh Bowery; Kate Moss; Jerry Hall; supervisor Sue Tilley; his longtime assistant, David Dawson; sovereignty own children; and, in 2001, Monarch Elizabeth. Two phenomenally successful exhibitions would transform his international reputation: the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 1988 and a retrospective at the Wretched in 2002.

Here is Freud’s voice—still owing to fierce, complicated, witty and charismatic as birdcage his youth—talking about his art, empress friends and lovers and the tittletattle about them all, making this supply, like the first, a nod outlook autobiography. Vivid and engrossing, The Lives of Lucian Freud is a blinding and authoritative tour de force deviate reveals important new details about leadership thoughts, the life and the trench of this elusive artist.