Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

Greig, Geordie

ISBN 10: 0374116482 / ISBN 13: 9780374116484

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

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First US edition.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1748123121830

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374116482
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374116484
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Memoir
  • Art Books

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By Geordie Greig ( Author ) [ Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter By Oct-2013 Hardcover

Présentation de l'éditeur

For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke's restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud's private salon.

In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud's stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney; sleeping with horses; escaping the Krays; painting the Queen; his controversial role as a father; and why Velázquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies and his love of gambling. Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked.

Those closest to him, after decades of silence and secrecy, have spoken frankly about what life was like living, loving or sitting for the greatest figurative portraitist of the twentieth century. Partly based on hours of taped conversations with the artist and his circle, and drawing on interviews with those who knew Freud intimately - including many girlfriends, models, dealers and bookmakers - Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait of the artist as a young and old man. Illustrated with many unseen photographs of Freud, it is a uniquely fascinating, personal and authoritative account of one of the greatest British painters of this century and the last, and a profile of a man who makes everyone else's life seem less lived.