The Lives of Lucian Freud
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2Performance (1970), film directed by Donald Cammell/Nicholas Roeg, in which James Fox plays a gangster merging personalities with Mick Jagger, cast as a reclusive rock star.
3David Thomson, Independent on Sunday, 19 May 2004.
4Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
5George Melly, Owning Up, trilogy (London: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 490.
6Keiron Pim, Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock ’n’ Roll Underworld (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016), pp. 95–101 and passim.
7David Litvinoff committed suicide in 1975.
8Kenneth Clark, Moments of Vision, Romanes Lecture 1954 (London: John Murray, 1973).
9Lawrence Alloway, ‘London Letter’, Artnews, November 1954, p. 54.
10John Minton, ‘Three Young Contemporaries’, Ark 13, Spring 1955.
11David Sylvester, ‘The Kitchen Sink’, Encounter, December 1954.
12Jack Smith, in catalogue The Forgotten Fifties (Sheffield: Graves Art Gallery, 1984), p. 49.
13Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
14Helen Lessore, Partial Testament (London: Tate Publishing, 1987).
15John Berger, New Statesman, April 1955.
16‘What is the Secret of This Picture?’, Daily Express, 20 April 1955, p. 9.
17Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
18Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (London: Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 164.
19Ibid., pp. 172–3.
20Ibid., p. 172.
21LF, letter to Stephen Spender, 24 October 1982, Sotheby’s, London, 2 July 2015.
22Obliterated by a subsequent owner, once it became known that a Freud mural probably survived under the white paint it was unveiled again some fifty years later.
23Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948–55 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), April 1955.
24Charlie Lumley, interview with Michael Macaulay, ‘Sitting for Lucian Freud’, Sotheby’s catalogue for 13 October 2011 sale, p. 176.
25Michael Andrews, letter to the author, 12 August 1985.
26Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
27Samuel Beckett, Disjecta (London: John Calder, 1983), p. 148.
28LF letter to Clement Freud, c. 1954, recited from memory.
29Clement Freud, Freud Ego (London: BBC Books, 2001), p. 120.
25: ‘MAD ON HEAT AND RUNNING ROUND, PISSING ALL THE TIME’
1David Sylvester, Art News and Review, 17 June 1955.
2The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, ed. Neville Braybrooke (London: Duckworth, 1975), p. 116.
3That autumn Eden fell ill and took refuge in Jamaica at Goldeneye.
4Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 20 October 1956, quoted in Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997), p. 488.
5Cyril Connolly, letter to Caroline Blackwood, quoted in Lewis, Cyril Connolly, p. 487.
6Ibid., p. 488.
7Ibid.
8Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11David Sylvester, Listener, 12 January 1956.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
13Ibid.
14Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (London: Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 240.
15Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 304–5.
16Cecil Beaton, The Restless Years: Diaries 1955–63 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976), May 1956, pp. 44–5.
17Spender, New Selected Journals, p. 221.
18Stephen Spender, New Statesman, 12 May 1956.
19Spender, New Selected Journals, p. 248.
20John Minton, reported in the Daily Express, 19 May 1956.
21Andrew Forge, ‘We Dream of Motor Cars’, Encounter, January 1956, p. 68.
22Edward Booth Clibborn, a nephew of Nina Hamnett, remembered seeing Freud in the hospital corridor. Letter to the author, 31 March 2016. Nina Hamnett died in December 1956.
26: ‘DO YOU THINK I’M MADE OF WOOD?’
1John Minton, reported in the Daily Express, 19 May 1956.
2David Wynne-Morgan, ‘Yesterday There Died a Purple, Melancholy Genius’, Daily Express, 21 January 1957.
3Unidentified newspaper cutting.
4Ivana Lowell [Caroline’s daughter by Israel Citkowitz], Why Not Say What Happened? (London: Bloomsbury, 2010), p. 23.
5A. E. Ellis, The Rack (London: William Heinemann, 1958). The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, had murdered her lover in 1955.
6Christopher Isherwood, Diaries, vol. 1: 1939–60, ed. Katharine Bucknell (London: Methuen, 1996), February 1959, p. 303.
7Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), pp. 232–3.
8Matthew Marks, letter to the author, April 2013.
9Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, interviewed by the author in Lucian Freud: Portraits (2004), film directed by Jake Auerbach, produced by Jake Auerbach and William Feaver.
10Fritz Hess, letter to LF, 21 January 1957, private collection.
11Ernst Freud, letter to Fritz Hess, 1 February 1957.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 2014.
13Henry Green in Matthew Smith: Paintings from 1909 to 1952 (London: Tate Gallery/HMSO, 1953), p. 10.
14Francis Bacon in ibid., p. 12.
15Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 2014.
16Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
17Ibid.
18Stephen Spender, Journals, 1939–83 (London: Faber & Faber, 1985), p. 175.
19Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 9 March 2012.
20‘Magistrate Warns Motorist: You ought to see psychiatrist’, The Times, 10 January 1959, p. 4.
21Ibid.
22Ibid.
27: ‘BRILLIANT ONES FIZZLED’
1Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, letter to Diana, Lady Mosley, 12 August 1957, The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Fourth Estate, 2007), p. 297.
2Giles Brandreth, ‘The Duke of Devonshire’s A to Z of Englishness’, Daily Mail, c. 2003, reprinted 6 April 2018.
3Hilaire Belloc, ‘The Garden Party’, in Cautionary Verses (London: Duckworth, 1951), p. 131.
4Evelyn Waugh, letter to Nancy Mitford, 21 June 1960, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 545.
5Duke of Devonshire reported by LF.
6Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, letters to Nancy Mitford, 7 October 1960 and 21 July 1961, The Mitfords, pp. 343 and 355.
7June Keeley (Andrews), conversation with the author, 10 October 1997.
8Ibid.
9Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son (London: HarperCollins, 1997).
10Nick Garland, letter to the author, 17 March 2000.
11Ibid.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, October 2012.
28: ‘ACTUALLY IT’S ALL I CAN DO’
1Don Henderson, letter to the author, 3 May 1992.
2Bruce Bernard, Introduction, Lucian Freud (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), p. 12.
3D. H. Lawrence, ‘Introduction to These Paintings’ (1929), in Selected Critical Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 248.
4Anon. (Michael Nelson), A Room in Chelsea Square (London: Jonathan Cape, 1958), p. 26.
5Ibid., p. 71.
6Ibid., p. 76.
29: ‘PEOPLE BEING MONOGAMOUS SEEMS TO ME AN EXTRAORDINARY AND IMAGINATIVE SITUATION’
1David Beaufort, conversation with the author, 7 November 2012.
2Quentin Crewe, Evening Standard, 17 March 1958.
3John Berger, ‘Success and Value’, New Statesman, 5 April 1958. This appeared three pages on from Paul Johnson on ‘Sex, Snobbery
and Sadism’, a review of Ian Fleming’s Dr No: ‘without doubt the nastiest book I have ever read’.
4Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 29 March 1958, The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (London: Collins, 1985), p. 215.
5‘James Bond prefers Nature to Art’, Evening Standard, 1 April 1958.
6Lawrence Alloway, Listener, 10 April 1958.
7Anon (David Thompson), The Times, 26 March 1958.
8John Russell, Sunday Times, 30 March 1958.
9Neville Wallis, Observer, 30 March 1958.
10Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, September 2012.
11Kenneth Clark, Listener, 22 February 1940.
12John Berger, New Statesman, 5 April 1958.
13John Berger, New Statesman, reprinted in his Permanent Red (London: Methuen, 1960), p. 43.
14June Keeley (Andrews), conversation with the author, July 1997.
15Jeffrey Bernard, ‘Low Life’, Spectator [timeless].
16Andrew Parker-Bowles, conversation with the author, 15 February 2012.
17Terry Miles, conversation with the author, 18 April 2008.
18Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 219.
19Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979), p. 325.
20Kitty Garman, letter to LF, 6 February 1959, private collection.
21Alice Weldon, conversation with the author, 14 January 2014.
22Michael Andrews, conversation with the author, March 1986.
23David Wright, writing as James Mahon, ‘Official Art and the Modern Painter’, X, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1959, p. 30.
24Frank Auerbach, ‘Fragments from a Conversation’, X, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1959, p. 33.
25Ibid., p. 34.
26David Wright, writing as James Mahon, ‘The Painter in the Press’, X, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1960, p. 299.
27Sir Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting (London: Thames & Hudson, 1959), Preface.
28Herbert Read, ‘My Favourite Picture’, Books and Art, January 1958, p. 19.
29Duchess of Devonshire, letter to Paddy Leigh Fermor, 11 November 1959, In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: John Murray, 2008), p. 62.
30George Millar, Isabel and the Sea (London: William Heinemann, 1948), p. 379.
30: ‘HE WAS RATHER NICE AND REPULSIVE’
1Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 324–5.
2Reggie Kray, A Way of Life (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000), p. 235.
3X, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1960.
4Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
5John Rothenstein, Time’s Thievish Progress (London: Cassell, 1970), p. 98.
6The Times, 26 May 1967.
31: ‘AWFULLY UNEASY’
1David Sylvester, ‘Michael Andrews: “Mysterious Conventionality”’, Sunday Times colour magazine, 13 January 1963.
2John Russell, Sunday Times, 10 June 1962.
3Douglas Cooper, The Work of Graham Sutherland (London: Lund Humphries, 1961), Introduction.
4Observer, 21 January 1962.
5Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
6Ibid.
7Ibid.
8Annabel Freud, conversation with the author, 14 February 2013.
9Ibid.
10Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
11Tim Behrens, letter to the author, 2002.
32: ‘THE ABSOLUTE CHEEK OF MAKING ART’
1David Sylvester, ‘Dark Sunlight’, Sunday Times magazine, 2 June 1963.
2Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations (1921) (London: Thames & Hudson, 1991), p. 163.
3Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
4Jimmy Stern, letter to LF, 2 October 1963, private collection.
5Eric Newton, Guardian, 7 October 1963.
6David Thompson, The Times, 5 October 1963.
7‘Peterborough’, Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1963.
8Photographs taken in April 1958.
9David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (London: Thames & Hudson, 1975), p. 21.
10Gasquet, Cézanne, p. 158.
11Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud (London: Thames & Hudson, 1982), p. 161.
12Lynda Morris, letter to the author, n.d. [c. 2000].
13Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Form (London: John Murray, 1957) p. 1.
14Kenneth Clark quoted in Herbert Read, ‘My Favourite Picture’, Books and Art, January 1958, p. 19.
15LF quoting Kenneth Clark.
16Edmond L. A. H. de Goncourt and Jules A. H. de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, ed. Robert Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 53 and 61.
17Walter Sickert, ‘The Naked and the Nude’, New Age, 21 July 1910, p. 277.
33: ‘I CAN’T BE PRESSED REALLY’
1John Russell in Bryan Robertson, John Russell and Lord Snowdon, Private View (London: Thomas Nelson, 1965), p. 113.
2Ibid.
3Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
4Ibid.
5Jane McAdam Freud, letter to the author, 22 November 2000.
6Paul McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 4 December 2000.
7Ibid.
8Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
9Jane McAdam Freud, letter to the author, 22 November 2000.
10Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 7 January 2012.
11Francis Bacon: Interviews with David Sylvester, film directed by Michael Gill, BBC, May 1966.
12The painting was destroyed in a fire.
13Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Salon of 1846’, The Mirror of Art (London: Phaidon Press, 1955), p. 89.
14Ibid., p. 70.
15John Russell, Lucian Freud (London: Arts Council, 1974), p. 23.
16Brian Sayers, letter to the author, February 2012.
34: ‘IF WORK PERMITS’
1Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
2Mark O’Connor, conversation with the author, May 2013.
3Esther Freud, conversation with the author, 26 February 2016.
4Ibid.
5Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
6Esther Freud, conversation with the author, 26 February 2016.
7Cedric Morris, Studio, May 1942, pp. 121–30.
8Edmond L. A. H. de Goncourt and Jules A. H. de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, ed. Robert Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 22 May 1865, p. 106.
9David Somerset, conversation with the author, 7 November 2012.
10Paul Overy, Listener, 2 May 1968.
11Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
12De Goncourt and de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, 23 May 1871, p. 189.
13Alice Weldon, conversations with the author, 14 January and 15 June 2014.
14Anne Dunn, conversation with the author.
15Anne Dunn, letter to the author, January 2013.
16Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
17Ibid.
18Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
19De Goncourt and de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, 21 May 1857, p. 27.
Bibliography
Sources relating to the period of Lucian Freud’s life covered by this volume.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Author’s recorded interviews and conversations with Freud, 1973 to 2011
Extensive conversations with, among many others, Frank Auerbach, Anne Dunn, Annie Freud, Felicity Hellaby, Gabriele Ullstein, Alice Weldon
Lucian Freud, ‘Some Thoughts on Painting’, Encounter, vol. 3, no. 1, July 1954
Lucian Freud, statement in Modern Art in Brita
in, ed. Michael Peppiatt, Cambridge Opinion, no. 37, 1964, p. 47
Lucian Freud, statement in The Artist’s Eye (London: National Gallery, 1987)
PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS WITH LUCIAN FREUD BY THE AUTHOR
‘Lucian Freud: the Analytical Eye’, Sunday Times magazine, 3 February 1974
‘The Artist out of his Cage’, Observer Review, 6 December 1992
‘The Naked Eye’, Observer Life, 23 June 1996
Lucian Freud on John Constable: A Conversation with William Feaver (London: British Council, 2003)
SECONDARY SOURCES
Books of particular importance to Freud
J. H. Breasted, Geschichte Ägyptens (Vienna: Phaidon, 1936 – distributed in Britain by George Allen & Unwin)
Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (London: Macmillan, 1876)
Wolf Durian, Kai aus der Kiste (Berlin: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1927)
Erich Kästner, Emil und die Detektive (Berlin: Williams Verlag, 1928)
Christian Morgenstern, Galgenlieder (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1905)
Tom Seidmann-Freud, ABC: Hurra, Wir Lesen! Hurra, Wir Schreiben! (Berlin: Herbert Stuffer Verlag, 1930)
Monographs
Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996)
William Feaver, Lucian Freud (New York: Rizzoli, 2007)
Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud (London: Thames & Hudson, 1982)
Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud, 1946–1995 (London: Marlborough Graphics, 1995)
Film, Television and Radio
Lucian Freud in conversation with William Feaver, Third Ear, BBC Radio 3, producer Judith Bumpus, recorded 10 December 1991
Jake Auerbach, (producer), Omnibus: Lucian Freud, BBC1, 1988. Jake Auerbach, Lucian Freud Portraits, Jake Auerbach Films Ltd, London, 2004 (interviews, conducted by the author as co-producer, with many of Freud’s sitters)
Randall Wright (producer), Lucian Freud: A Painted Life, BBC2, 2012
Articles
William Feaver, ‘Stranded Dinosaurs’, London Magazine, July–August 1970
John Gruen, ‘The relentlessly personal vision of Lucian Freud’, Artnews, April 1977
Exhibition Catalogues
Richard Calvocoressi, Lucian Freud Early Works (Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997)
Susan Compton (ed.), British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement (London: Royal Academy 1986)