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 ...
Post and Courier

Review: Artist Lucian Freud thoroughly portrayed in first volume of new biography

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...