6/26/2023 0 Comments Lucian Freud by William FeaverHe was obsessed with his art, and with the idea of producing paintings that "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince." He was equally energetic and ambitious in his private life. The final forty years of Freud's life were a period of increasing recognition and fame, and of prodigious output. In this brilliant second and final volume of the definitive biography of Lucian Freud-one of the most influential, enigmatic and secretive artists of the twentieth century-William Feaver, the noted art critic, draws on years of daily conversations with Freud, on his private papers and letters and on interviews with his friends and family to explore the intimate life of Freud, from age forty-five to his death in 2011 at the age of eighty-nine. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
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