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Lucian Freud : eyes wide open / Phoebe Hoban.

by Hoban, Phoebe.

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Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.

9780544114593 (hardback) :

0544114590 (hardback)

Icons series (New Harvest (Firm))

174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

The art of looking -- Learning to be Lucian -- Women and muses -- London days -- Beautiful people -- Letting go -- Carnal knowledge -- Channeling Courbet -- Intimations of mortality -- Bypassing decorum -- New views -- The way of all flesh -- Painting against time -- Not going gently -- Leaving the studio.

In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination.

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