The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011

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<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE</b> <b>CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>, <i>OBSERVER</i>, <i>THE TIMES</i>, <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i>, <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i>, <i>MAIL ON SUNDAY</i>, <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i>, <i>NEW STATESMAN</i>, <i>SPECTATOR</i> THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020</b> <b>'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A central figure as wild and beguiling as any character in literature' CRAIG BROWN</b> William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Over many years, Freud narrated to him the story of his life, 'our novel'. <i>Fame</i> follows Freud at the height of his powers, painting the most iconic works of his career in a constant pursuit of perfection, just outrunning his gambling debts and tailor's bills. Whether tattooing swallows at the base of Kate Moss's back or exacting a strange revenge on Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger, Freud's adventures were always perfectly characteristic. An <i>enfant terrible</i> till the end, even as he was commissioned to paint the Queen, what emerges is an artist wilfully oblivious to the glitter of the world around - and focussed instead on painting first and last. <b>'A dazzling tour de force' <i>THE TIMES</i></b> <b>'A wonderfully vivid chronicle' <i>OBSERVER</i></b> <b>'Does justice to Freud's pitiless genius' <i>DAILY MAIL</i></b>