The Lives of Lucian Freud

by William Feaver

  Cecil, Lord David, here

  Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, here, here

  Cézanne, Paul, here, here, here

  Chance, Caryl, here, here

  Chancellor, Alexander, here

  Charteris, Guy, here

  Chataway, Bill, here

  Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, here, here, here

  Chicken in a Bucket (LF; drawing), here

  Child in Bed (LF; painting), here

  Child Portrait (Head of a Girl; LF; painting), here

  Chiquita (South American model; later Birkbeck), here

  Chopping, Richard, here, here, here, here

  Christie, John Reginald Halliday, here, here

  Christie, John Traill, here, here, here

  Churchill, Clarissa (later Lady Eden and Countess of Avon), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Churchill Club, London, here

  Churchill, Lord Ivor, here

  Churchill, Randolph, here

  Churchill, Sir Winston, here, here

  Citkowitz, Israel: marriage to Caroline, here

  Civilisation (TV series), here

  Clandeboye, Northern Ireland, here, here, here

  Clarendon Crescent, Paddington, here, here, here, here, here

  Clark, Alan, here

  Clark, Colin, here

  Clark, Jane, Lady, here, here, here, here

  Clark, Kenneth, Baron: organises ‘British War Art’ exhibition (New York), here; visits LF and Craxton, here; views and influence, here; as Director of National Gallery, here; buys paintings from Wilde, here; in Paris, here; praises Henry Moore, here; and LF’s Girl with Roses, here; buys Constable painting, here; patronage, here; on Annie Freud as baby, here; and Sutherlands, here; purchases Still Life with Squid and Sea Urchin, here; loneliness and detachment, here; on life in Paddington, here; sees Zoe Hicks pose, here; buys LF’s Boy with a White Scarf, here; funds LF’s painting for Festival of Britain, here; marriage to Nolwen, here; owns Balcony Still Life, here; Romanes Lectures (1954), here; break with LF, here; on English provincialism, here; visits LF’s Marlborough exhibition, here; champions Sidney Nolan, here; on three mysteries in life, here; authority, here; Civilisation (TV series and book), 691; The Nude, here; ‘Ornament in Modern Architecture’, here

  Clifton Hill, St John’s Wood, here, here

  Clive, Stella, here

  Clore, Alan, here

  Clore, Charles, here

  Coade, Thorold, here, here

  Cockburn, Claud, here, here

  Cock’s Head (LF; painting), here, here

  Cocteau, Jean: La Belle et la bête (film), here, here, here; Le sang d’un poète, here

  Coffee An’, Flitcroft Street, London, here, here, here, here, here

  Coffin, Clifford, here

  Coldstream, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Collins, Cecil, here

  Collis, Maurice, here, here

  Colony Room Club, The, here

  Colquhoun, Ithell, here

  Colquhoun, Robert, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; Woman with a Birdcage (painting), here; Woman with Leaping Cat (painting), here

  Comper, Sir Ninian, here

  Connolly, Cyril: co-founds and edits Horizon, here, here, here; LF draws, here, here, here; friendship with LF, here, here; lampooned in Mickey Nelson’s A Room in Chelsea Square, here; in Devon, here; and Janet Woolley, here; in post-war Paris, here; on Brendan Behan, here; and Anne Dunn, here, here; on travelling and importing art, here; disparages England, here; and discontinuation of Horizon, here; and LF’s portrait of Anne Rothermere, here; and Barbara Skelton, here; in Arcachon, here; 50th birthday dinner, here; buys Girl Reading, here; at LF/Caroline wedding, here; infatuation with Caroline, here, here; owns LF’s Girl’s Head, here; writes on Freuds in Vogue, here, here; on LF’s rise in life, here; visits Coombe Priory, here; visits LF in France, here; bequest from Watson, here; sells Portrait of a Girl to Anne Dunn, here

  Conrad, Joseph, here, here

  Constable, John, here; The Leaping Horse (painting), here, here

  Contemporary Art Society (CAS), here, here

  Coombe Priory, Dorset-Wiltshire, here, here, here

  Cooper, Alfred Duff, here

  Cooper, Artemis, here

  Cooper, Lady Diana, here, here

  Cooper, Douglas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Coppard, A.E., here

  Coppard, Julia, here

  Coram, Captain Thomas, here

  Corbett, Leonora, here

  Cornwall: LF travels in, here

  Corsellis, Elizabeth, here

  Courbet, Gustave, here, here, here, here, here

  Coventry Cathedral, here

  Coverley, Bernardine, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Coward, Noël, here, here, here, here; Relative Values (play), here

  Cowles, Fleur, here, here, here, here

  Cowley (schoolteacher), here

  Cranborne Chase, Dorset, here

  Craxton, Effie (John’s mother), here

  Craxton, John: decorates Anglo-Russian Café, here; friendship with LF, here, here, here, here; shares house with LF, here, here; exhibits at Leicester Galleries, here, here, here; buying and collecting, here; draws Watson, here; joint exhibition with LF at London Gallery (1947), here; visits E.Q. Nicholson in Dorset with LF, here; attends Goldsmith’s College, here; influenced by Sutherland, here; and LF’s drawing, here; on LF’s involvement with Lorna Wishart, here; Gibson-Smith photographs, here; in Wales with Peter Watson, here; style, here; illustrates Grigson’s The Poet’s Eye, here, here; leaves Abercorn Place, here; LF draws and paints, here, here, here, here, here; wishes to see ‘Picasso Libre’ in Paris, here; on LF’s breach with Lorna Wishart, here; output, here; Ayrton on, here; visits Paris, here; in Greece, here, here, here, here; invites LF to Greece, here; draws LF, here; meets George Millar in Greece, here; exhibits in British Council in Athens, here; pilfers Greek icons, here; gives catalogue to Picasso, here; breach with LF, here, here, here; considers LF junior, here; homosexuality, here; Mesens sells, here; ballet designs, here; and Anne Dunn’s marriage to Wishart, here; declines submitting for Festival of Britain project, here; decline, here; at Ann Fleming party, here; Dreamer in Landscape (painting), here; Landscape with Rocks (drawing), here; Man with a Moustache (painting), here; Pastoral for P[eter] W[atson] (painting), here; Poet in Landscape (painting), here; Portrait of a Young Man (painting), here; Tree Root in an Estuary, Wales (drawing), here

  Crewe, Quentin, here, here

  Crisp, Clement, here

  Crosland, Antony, here

  Crosse, Paul, here, here

  Cuban missile crisis, here

  Curry, W.B., here

  Cuthbertson, Penelope, here, here, here, here

  Daffodils and Celery (LF; painting), here

  Daily Express Young Artists competition, here, here

  Dalí, Salvador, here, here, here

  Dane Court (school), Pyrford, Surrey, here

  Darby, William, here

  Dartington Hall (school), Devon, here, here, here

  Darwin, Robin, here, here

  Dashwood, Helen, Dowager Lady, here

  Daumier, Honoré, here

  David, Elizabeth, here; A Book of Mediterranean Food, here

  Davis, Bill, here

  Day, Georgie, here

  Day-Lewis, Cecil, here, here

  Dead Heron (LF; painting), here, here, here, here

  Dead Monkey (LF; drawing), here, here

  Deakin, John, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Dean Street, Soho, here

  Debenham, Susanna, here

  Dedham see East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing

  Degas, Edgar, here

  de Kooning, Willem, here, here, here, here

  de la Mare, Walter: Memoirs of a Midget, here

  Delacroix, Eugène, here, here, here

  Delamer
e Terrace, Maida Vale, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; see also Paddington

  Delmer, Isabel (later Rawsthorne), here

  Dennis, Nigel: Cards of Identity, here, here

  Denny, Robyn, here

  Denvir, Bernard, here

  des Granges, David: The Saltonstall Family (painting), here

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of, here, here, here, here, here

  Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of, here, here, here

  Diamantopoulos, Christos, here

  Diamond, Harry: friendship with LF, here, here, here; in LF paintings, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; belligerence, here; on Colony Room betting machine, here; conversation, here; photographs LF, here

  Dibben, Horace, here

  Discher, Eve, here

  Dix, Otto, here, here

  d’Offay, Anthony, here

  Domínguez, Óscar, here

  Domvile, Miranda, here

  Donald, James, here

  Donat, Robert, here

  Doré, Gustave: London, here, here

  Dorrien-Smith, Major A.A., here

  Drabble, Margaret, here

  Drawing (LF; c.1958 ), here

  Driberg, Tom, here

  Dublin, here, here

  Dubuffet, Jean, here, here

  Ducasse, Isidore see Lautréamont, Comte de

  Duchamp, Marcel, here

  Ducksbury, Sally, here

  Duff, Lady Julia, here

  Dufferin and Ava, Maureen Guinness, Dowager Marchioness of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Dufferin, Sheridan, here

  Dulac, Edmund, here, here

  Dunham, Katherine, here; Caribbean Rhapsody (ballet), here

  Dunlop, R.O., here

  Dunluce, Alexander (later Earl of Antrim), here

  Dunn, Anne (later Wishart): models as Gina the temptress, here; in Ireland with LF, here; on Kitty as model, here; LF paints, here, here; on LF’s dominance in lovemaking, here; publishes Art and Literature magazine, here; on Charlie Lumley, here, here; and Sonia Brownell (Orwell), here; and Zoe Hicks, here; attends Cedric Morris’s school, here; marries Michael Wishart and birth of son, here; LF stays with, here; on LF’s friendship with Bacon, here; and Caroline Blackwood, here; in Paris, here; and Caroline’s leaving LF, here; marries Moynihan, here, here, here; Spender complains to of LF, here; on LF’s McAdam children, here; on LF’s concentration, here; marriage relations, here

  Dunn, Sir James, here

  Dunn, Patricia, here

  Dunn, Sir Philip, here

  Dürer, Albrecht, Das Grosse Rasenstuck (study), here

  Dyer, George, here, here, here

  Earp, T.W., here

  East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham: LF attends, here, here; destroyed in fire, here, here; reopens in war, here; advertised in Horizon, here

  Ebbels, Kim, here

  Eden, Sir Anthony, here, here

  Edwards, Bridget, here

  Edwards, Hilton, here

  Einzig, Susan, here

  Elek, Paul, here

  Eliot, T.S.: and Spender’s infatuation with LF, here; visits Churchill Club, here; on art as escape from personality, here; The Cocktail Party (play), here; The Family Reunion (play), here, here

  Elizabeth II, Queen: Coronation, here

  Ellington, Duke, here

  Elliott, Mary, here

  Elmhirst, Dorothy and Leonard, here

  Éluard, Nusch, here

  Embirikos, Andreas, here

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, here

  Empson, William, here, here

  Encarnation in the Square (play), here

  Encounter (magazine), here, here, here

  Enfants du Paradis, Les (film), here, here

  Epstein, Sir Jacob: and Kathleen Garman, here, here; notoriety, here; LF meets, here; marriage, here; meets Picasso, here; bust of Kitty, here; buys LF’s Portrait of Kitty, here; Balthus on, here; forgotten, here; on sculpting Michael Tree, here; St Michael sculpture in Coventry Cathedral, here; Genesis (sculpture), here, here; Jacob and the Angel (sculpture), here; Let There Be Sculpture (autobiography), here; Youth Advances (sculpture), here

  Epstein, Kathleen, Lady (née Garman), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Ernst, Max: loses popularity, here; wins Golden Lion at 1954 Venice Biennale, here; Fleurs (painting), here, here; Une semaine de bonté (collage), here

  Esmeralda’s Barn, Knightsbridge (gambling club), here

  Euston Road School (of painters), here, here

  Evacuee Boy (LF; painting), here

  Evans, Walker, here, here

  Everyman (magazine), here

  Evill, Wilfred, here, here, here

  Existentialism, here

  Expressionism, here

  Eyck, Jan van, here

  Facetti, Germano: Private View (with Lord Snowdon), here

  Fahrenkamp, Emil, here

  Farson, Dan, here, here, here

  Father and Daughter (LF; painting), here, here, here

  Faye, Stefan de, here

  Fellowes, Daisy, here, here

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh, here, here, here

  Festival of Britain (1951), here

  Fires Were Started (film), here

  Fischer Fine Art, here

  Fischer, Harry, here, here, here, here

  Fischer, Wolfgang, here

  Flair (magazine), here, here

  Flaubert, Gustave, here

  Fleet, Simon, here

  Fleming, Ann (earlier Viscountess Rothermere): and Ideal Homes Exhibition prize-giving, here; buys LF’s strawberries painting, here; entertains Garbo, here; LF portrays, here, here, here; and LF’s driving, here; social life, here; playgoing, here; at St Margaret’s Bay, here; marriage to Ian Fleming, here; invites LF to Jamaica, here; takes LF to Oxford, here; gives birthday dinner for Cyril Connolly, here; at LF/Caroline wedding, here; on LF’s social status, here; throws party, here; and Hugh Gaitskell, here; on Connolly’s infatuation with Caroline, here; persuades Ian to buy LF’s Man Smoking, here; and LF’s gambling, here; on LF’s motoring accident, here; buys and sells Woman Smiling, here; and George Dyer, here

  Fleming, Eve, here

  Fleming, Ian, here, here, here, here

  Fonteyn, Margot, here

  Forge, Andrew, here, here

  Formby, George, here

  Forster, E.M., here

  Forwood, Tony, here

  Foss, Marge, here

  Fougasse (cartoonist), here

  Fouts, Denham, here, here

  Fowler, Norman (‘Digger’), here

  France: Freud family holidays with Lambtons, here; see also Paris

  Francis Bacon (LF; painting), here, here

  Frankfurter, Alfred, here

  Freud, Alexander (Sigmund’s youngest brother), here

  Freud, Anna (LF’s aunt): and father’s temporary estrangement from Ernst, here; arrested in Vienna, here; Melanie Klein attacks, here; LF dislikes, here; radio confiscated in war, here; collects shrapnel at Maresfield Gardens, here; turns against Annie, here; and Alice Weldon, here; Young Children in War-time (with Dorothy Burlingham), here

  Freud, Annabel (LF/Kitty’s daughter): born, here; at Coombe Priory, here; at Biddick Hall, here; Greek holiday with LF, here; anorexia and illness, here, here

  Freud, Annie (LF/Kitty’s daughter): on great-grandmother Omi, here; delights in Hiddensee, here; on Kathleen Epstein, here; birth, here; infancy, here; and LF’s Lady with a White Dog, here; Beaton photographs, here; at Coombe Priory, here; LF draws, here, here, here; on visiting rag-and-bone shop, here; holidays with LF, here, here; upbringing, here; LF paints nude, here; relations with Mark O’Connor, here

  Freud, Bella (LF’s daughter by Bernardine Coverley), here, here, here, here

  Freud, Clement (Clemens Rafael; LF’s brother): birth, here; on LF’s paternity, here; catches hand in escalator, here; pictured as child, here; suffers anti-Semitism in Germany, here; attends Dartington sch
ool, here; relations with LF as boy, here; on LF’s stealing, here; works as waiter at Dorchester hotel, here; at war’s end, here; in Cannes, here; buys LF’s portrait of Caroline Blackwood, here; at Royal Court Theatre Club, here; later relations with LF, here; hoards LF paintings, here

  Freud, Ernst Ludwig (LF’s father): architectural career, here; and LF’s birth, here; marriage relations, here; watercolours and drawings, here; Zionism, here; leaves Germany for England, here, here, here; visits Austria with LF, here; as practising architect in England, here; pictured with LF, here; escorts father to England, here; naturalised British, here; and outbreak of war (1939), here; financial difficulties in war, here; designs kitchens and restaurants in war, here; returns to St John’s Wood Terrace in war, here; converts Hendy’s house, here; and LF’s career as painter, here; takes house for LF and Kitty in St John’s Wood, here; and LF’s marriage to Caroline, here; advises on improvements to Coombe Priory, here; on Jane Willoughby, here

  Freud, Esther (LF’s daughter by Bernardine Coverley), here, here; Hideous Kinky (novel), here

  Freud, Kitty (née Epstein), 867; relations with LF, here, here, here; background, here; LF portrays, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; LF designs dress for, here; marriage to LF, here, here; in France with LF, here, here; meets Giacometti, here; and Orwells, here; and Jacob Mendelson, here; visits Dublin with LF, here; Henry Yorke escorts, here; smashes Girl in a Dark Dress, here; LF leaves, here; financial difficulties, here; and parents’ marriage breakdown, here; on LF’s driving, here; affair with Tynan, here; jealous of Annabel’s illness, here; worried over LF’s portrait of Annie, here

  Freud, Lucian: liking for unpredictability, here; working methods, here, here; birth and upbringing in Germany, here, here, here, here; wariness of mother, here, here, here, here; early drawings, here, here, here; Jewishness, here; summer holidays on Hiddensee, here; hit by car, here; schooling in Germany, here, here; pictured as boy, here, here; political awareness as boy, here; injures left hand and uses right, here, here; English lessons, here; moves to England, here; attends Dartington school, here, here; horseriding, here, here, here, here, here; learns English, here; moves to Hall School, Hampstead, here; plays Young Mariner in school production, here, here; leaves Dartington, here; attends Dane Court school, here; fighting, here, here, here; attends Bryanston school, here, here; joins school Oil Painting Club, here; interest in poetry, here; sculptures at Bryanston, here; amateur theatricals, here; great-aunts die in concentration camps, here; filmed with grandfather Sigmund, here; leaves Bryanston, here; shows in Peggy Guggenheim children’s art exhibition, here; studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts, here, here; patronises Café Royal, Regent Street, here; life in London, here, here, here, here, here, here; steals from family, here; counselled by Willi Hoffer, here; commits to painting, here, here; moves to East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, here; seduced by cousin Jo Mosse, here; portrait painting, here; self-portrait as student, here; painting break in Haulfryn, Wales with Spender and Kentish, here, here; Peter Watson supports and patronises, here; at Benton End, here, here; portrayed by Morris, here; visits Rosamond Lehmann and Wogan Philipps, here; relations and correspondence with Felicity Hellaby, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; wartime mural painting, here; first visit to pub, here; wins textile design competition, here; serves in merchant navy in war, here; discharged from merchant navy, here; hospitalised in war, here; exemption from military service, here; relations with Janetta Woolley, here; affair with Mary Hunt, here; fined for damaging London Theatre, here; contracts gonorrhea, here, here, here; dress, here, here, here, here; moves into house with Craxton, here, here; as film extra, here; sells Landscape with Birds, here; gambling, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; Wilenski commends, here; cultivates persona, here; spoken accent, here, here; self-portrait as Man with a Feather, here, here, here; buying and collecting, here; in Dorset with Craxton, here; studies drawing at Goldsmith’s College, here; attention to detail, here, here; influenced by Sutherland, here; on artist and Cuban missile Crisis, here; involvement with Lorna Wishart, here, here, here, here; acquires zebra head, here, here, here, here; visit to Loch Ness, here; and Anne Dunn, here, here, here, here, here, here; illustrates Moore’s The Glass Tower, here, here; prints, here; leaves Abercorn Place for Delamere Terrace, here, here; endures V-1 attacks, here; paints zebra head, here; friendship with Charlie Lumley, here, here, here, here, here; debut exhibition at Lefevre (1944), here; designs invitation card for exhibition, here, here; unfinished portrait of Mimi, here; affected behaviour, here; lacks family feeling, here; friendship with Francis Bacon, here, here, here, here, here, here; relations with Pauline Tennant, here; break with Lorna Wishart, here, here; in Scillies, here; stays in Paris (1946), here, here, here; relations with Joan Wyndham, here; painting method, here, here, here; drawings in Horizon, here; etchings, here, here, here; keeps pigeons, here; joins Craxton in Greece, here; George Millar on, here, here; Ayrton writes on, here; and Kitty Epstein, here, here, here; models for Epstein, here; Waldemar Hansen on, here; interviewed for Time magazine, here; lawsuit against Time magazine, here, here; revisits Paris, here, here, here, here, here, here; in ‘La Jeune Peinture en Grand Bretagne’ exhibition, here; breach with Craxton, here, here, here; images, here; keeps sparrowhawk, here; and ballet designs, here; marries Kitty, here; home in Clifton Hill, here; book illustrations, here; buys Francis Bacon paintings, here; and Greta Garbo, here, here; visits to Ireland, here; promiscuity and womanising, here, here, here, here; relations with Marie-Laure de Noailles, here; teaches at Slade, here, here; attitude to England and English, here; on Sonia Orwell, here; Patrick Heron on, here; poverty, here; damages Rothermeres’ car, here; dancing, here; dislikes regulation, here; turbulent domestic life, here; painting for Festival of Britain, here; wins purchase prize for Festival of Britain, here; artistic principles, here; pictured with Behan, here; picks up partners, here; Bacon paints, here; and Bacon’s aesthetic, here; marries Caroline, here, here, here; paints Bacon, here, here; draws Bacon, here; paints Minton, here, here; infatuation with Caroline Blackwood, here, here, here, here, here; in Ireland with Caroline Blackwood, here; leaves Kitty, here; with Flemings in Jamaica, here; in Jamaica, here, here; dislikes Ian Fleming, here; exhibits at Venice Biennale, here, here, here, here; in Madrid, here; gives talk in Oxford, here; writes on painting, here; paints Caroline Blackwood, here; paintings on copper plates, here; self-portrait with Caroline in Paris, here; Robert Melville on, here; attitude to money and possessions, here, here; learns to drive, here; moves to Dean Street, Soho, here; loses zebra head, here; awarded prize in Young Artists competition, here; marriage relations with Caroline, here, here; acquires Coombe Priory, here, here; difficult relations with brother Clement, here; Sylvester’s profile of, here; occasionally takes opium, here; and Minton’s suicide, here; Caroline leaves, here; financial difficulties, here; divorce from Caroline, here; entertains Matthew Smith, here; illegitimate children, here, here, here, here, here; prosecuted for driving accidents, here; motoring and driving, here, here, here; in Michael Nelson novel, here; exhibits at Marlborough Fine Art, here, here; as subject of articles, here; borrows money, here; and London criminal low life, here; friendship with Bindy Lambton, here; depicted in Andrews’ The Colony Room, here; moved out of Delamere Crescent, here, here; access to children after Kitty’s remarriage, here; photographed by Deakin, here, here, here; self-portraits, here, here, here, here; portrait nudes, here; moves to Gloucester Terrace, here; Marlborough exhibition (October 1963), here; on colour, here; tutoring at Norwich School of Art, here; depicted in Private View, here; likes pictures glazed, here; literary tastes, here; on photography, here; seeks sitters, here; titles of paintings, here; hideaways, here; concern for eyesight, here; differences with Marlborough gallery, here; Diamond photographs, here; moral behaviour, here; attitude to women, here; tenacity, here