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^ Read ! Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter by Geordie Greig ô eBook or Kindle ePUB. Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answeruntil now. In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an ins
| Title | : | Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374116482 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Freud spoke expansively about his tumultuous and maniacal life, from his Jewish German family’s escape from the Nazis to his starving-artist years. Impudent, ambitious, and voracious, Freud did have a lot to hide. Because he often paid his enormous gambling debts with paintings, a bookie owns the world’s largest private Lucian Freud collection. --Donna Seaman . From Booklist *Starred Review* Lucian Freud (1922–2011), “the greatest realist figure painter of the twentieth century,” went audaciously far beyond “nude” to shockingly naked and forever changed portraiture. Greig tells the astonishing story behind some of Freud’s most disturbing paintings and wryly observes that Freud and Sigmund, his famous grandfather, had a lot in common since it was also “Lucian’s business to get people to sit on beds or couches,
Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answeruntil now. In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an insider's accountaccessible, engaging, revealingof one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, enigmatic, and controversial artists. Fresh, funny, and ultimately profound, Breakfast with Lucian is an essential portraitone worthy of one of the greatest painters of our time.An NPR Best Book of 2013. Freud was twice married and the father of at least a dozen children, and his numerous relationships with women were the subject of much gossipbut the man himself remained a mystery. Based on private conversations in
Geordie Greig is the editor of The Mail on Sunday and, over the last thirty years, has interviewed most major living artists. Greig lives in Notting Hill, London, with his wife, Kathryn, and their son and twin daughters. Prior to moving to Britain's largest-circulation quality Sunday newspaper, he was the editor of the London Evening Standard, before which he spent ten years editing Tatler a
The title tells it all. Jill Meyer Do the "special people", the ones who have shown outstanding talents in the arts, sports, etc, deserve to be judged differently by society? Does their "greatness" exempt them from the same rules that seem to govern the rest of us? If so, then surely one example of this is the life of the late artist, Lucian Freud. Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, was a leading artist in the second half of the 20th century. He was known for his portraits; incredible and penetrating looks into the face, figure, and attendant ambiance of the sitter.Lucian Freud was the middle son of three. "Gossip with Crumpets" according to ShrewdShopper. Full disclosure, I'm a painter who has followed the work of Lucien Freud for many years so I'm predisposed to liking anything I read about him. There were times, however, when I'd have felt like I needed to shower after reading Breakfast With Lucien if it hadn't had that erudite British voice behind it. Gossipy bordering on trashy. It made me not like Lucien very much and somehow never really explained how his charm and charisma made up for all his dicey behavior. Evidently it did because the people in his life, according to Mr. Greig, were tremendously loyal and forgiv. Don Giovanni as a painter This is a funny and appalling page-turner about a modern Don Juan, written in a journalistic style that is almost always engaging. It's also a very good-looking books with nice prints and photos. If you're a Lucian Freud fan like me, it should be pure ratnip. I meant to go on at greater length, but I just read Dwight Garner's review in the New York Times and he really says it all -- take a look.
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