I’m extremely grateful to the Lucian Freud Archive for permission to use images of his paintings, all kindly provided by The Bridgeman Art Library.
Excerpts from Laurie Lee’s diaries reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Laurie Lee. Copyright © Laurie Lee 2013.
The quatrain “Don’t Ian, if Annie should cook you” is an extract from Don’ts for my darlings by Noël Coward © NC Aventales AG reproduced by permission of Alan Brodie Representation Ltd www.alanbrodie.com
The extract from ‘The Gyres’ reproduced by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems, revised by W. B. Yeats, edited by J. Finnereran. Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats, renewed 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michel Butler Yeats. All Rights Reserved.
Index
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Abramovich, Roman 17, 211
abstraction 10, 19, 30–31
Acquavella, William 34, 192, 203–4, 208–211
Aitchison, Craigie 158
Ancaster, James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of 154
Ancaster, Nancy, Countess of 154
Andreas-Salomé, Lou 41–2
Andrews, Michael 24, 136
Annabel’s (nightclub) 159, 166
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London 21, 22, 204, 206, 209, 212–13
anti-Semitism 15, 42, 44–6, 51, 88, 111, 116
Antilles (nightclub) 92, 93
Ascott, Buckinghamshire 12, 237
Ashton, Sir Frederick 107
Aspinall, John 197
Astor, Judy 72
Astor, Michael 72–3, 74
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess 154
Auden, W. H. 71, 127, 228
Auerbach, Frank 37; friendship with Lucian 3, 24, 36–8, 127, 136, 237; paintings owned by Lucian 4, 131, 229; views on Lucian’s work 25, 37–8, 135, 143; Lucian’s portrait of 36; family background and early life 38, 88; and Sheila Fell 120; and Lucian’s working method 142–3
Aung San Suu Kyi 2
Bacon, Francis: Lucian paints 12, 28–30, 29, 128; friendship with Lucian 14, 30, 31, 50, 92, 99, 113, 118, 136, 194; relationship with George Dyer 24; appearance and character 28, 48, 122; paints Lucian 28, 113; views on Lucian 28, 30; influence on Lucian 30, 31, 113; reputation 30, 31, 205; views on abstraction 30–31; family background 48; and Anne Dunn 96, 102; on Lucian’s sexuality 97; and Michael Wishart 98; and Vassilakis Takis 119, 120; death 210; Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 118; Two Figures 17, 150, 197, 230
Badminton House, Gloucestershire 169
Baghdad 87
Baltrover, SS 10, 14, 67–9
Balzac, Honoré de, Naked Balzac with Folded Arms (Rodin) 131, 229
Baselitz, Georg 204
Bearn, Emily 156–8
Bearn, Joseph 157
Beaton, Sir Cecil 67, 105
Beaufort, David Somerset, 11th Duke of 14, 69, 102, 169, 205, 206, 208, 213, 214
Beckett, Samuel 167; Breath 133
Behrens, Kate 135
Behrens, Tim 30, 102, 135–7, 153
Bellingham-Smith, Elinor 101
Benton End, Suffolk 66, 70, 74
Bérard, Christian 128
Berlin: under Nazis 10, 44–6; Lucian’s childhood in 41, 42, 43–4
Bernard, Bruce 16, 97, 169, 220
Beston, Valerie 28
Betjeman, Sir John 34
Biddick Hall, County Durham 181
Binsted, Sussex 86, 95
biographies, proposed, of Lucian xi
birds of prey, Lucian’s pets 147
Birley, India Jane 102
Birley, Mark 102
Blackwood, Lady Caroline (Lucian’s second wife): marriage to Lucian 95, 103, 105–115, 106, 116–17, 154; appearance and character 103, 108–9, 110–111, 111–12, 122–3; end of relationship with Lucian 103, 109–110, 115–16, 117–18; family background 103, 108, 139; Lucian’s portraits of 103–4, 104, 108, 109, 114, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 131, 135, 237; children 116, 120–21, 122, 123; later life 120–25; death 125; Lucian’s love letters to 148, 150; on Lucian’s Leigh Bowery portraits 206; Great Granny Webster 122; ‘Portraits by Freud’ 124
Blackwood, Lady Perdita 111
Blair, Tony 191
Blake, William 138
Blondie (band) 161–2
Bonaparte, Princess Marie 47
Bowery, Leigh 2, 17, 206–7; Lucian’s portraits of 2, 17, 140, 206–8, 209, 210, 211
Boxer, Lady Arabella 102
Boyt, Alexander ‘Ali’ (Lucian’s son) 143, 175, 184, 187, 223, 224
Boyt, Isobel (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 217
Boyt, Kai 187
Boyt, Rose (Lucian’s daughter) 162, 175, 220, 231, 234, 235–6; photographs Lucian 22, 23; Lucian paints 219, 222–3
Boyt, Susie (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 219
Boyt, Suzy: family background and early life 135, 222; relationship with Lucian 135, 136, 175, 222; children 175, 217, 222–4; Lucian paints 183, 187, 230
Brecht, Bertolt 39
British Council 205
Brown, Craig 202–3
Brown, Gordon 6, 191
Brown, Morrow 94, 97
Brown, Verity 142, 143
Browning, Robert, ‘My Last Duchess’ 109
Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder 42
Bryanston School 51, 53–4, 69, 70, 71
Buñuel, Luis, Un Chien Andalou 111
Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus 202
Byron, George, 6th Baron 159
Café Royal, Regent Street 47, 69, 93
Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of 2
Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of 2
Campbell, Anna 79
Campbell, Mary (née Garman) 79
Campbell, Roy 79
Capel Curig 70
Carr, David 67, 82
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland 46; The Hunting of the Snark 39
Cash, Johnny 162, 166
Cashel Bay, Connemara 94
Cavafy, Constantine 47
Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 54, 90
Cézanne, Paul 203; L’Après-midi à Naples 144
Chancellor, Alexander 156, 158
Chancellor, Susanna (née Debenham) 135, 136, 153, 155–6, 158, 235, 237; Lucian’s portraits of 155, 156, 157
Chandler, Victor 15, 67, 133, 134–5, 198–200, 208, 225
Channon, John 229
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, The Young Schoolmistress 7
Charles I, King 14
Charles, Prince of Wales 202
Charles, Ray 162
Chicago Institute of Art 210
Chien Andalou, Un (film) 111
Citkowitz, Evgenia 116, 123
Citkowitz, Israel 121
Citkowitz, Natalya 121, 122, 123
Clarendon Crescent, Paddington 176
Clarke, Sally 1, 2, 4, 234
Clarke’s restaurant, Kensington 1–2, 5, 238
Clash (band) 27
Cock Tavern, Smithfield 36, 37
Coffin, Clifford, photographs Lucian 62, 68, 147
Coldstream, Sir William 228
Cole, Nat King, ‘There’s Gotta Be Some Changes Made’ 6
Colony Room (club) 28, 30, 96, 224
Communist Party of Great Britain 81
concentration camps 44, 46
conceptual art 10
Connolly, Cressida, The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans 79
Connolly, Cyril 71, 95, 96, 218, 237; relations with Lucian 55, 63, 91, 92, 111, 228
Cook, Angus 140, 142, 165
Cooper, Lady Diana 105
Cooper, Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich 111
Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of 12
Coronation (19
53) 118, 155
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, L’Italienne, ou La Femme à la Manche Jaune 230
Cottbus 43
Courbet, Gustave, Le Sommeil 102
Coverley, Bernardine 175, 197, 217, 219–22; Garden of the Jaguar 222
Coward, Sir Noël 6, 105
Cranach, Lucas 120
Craxton, John 50, 67, 82, 87
Crewe, Quentin 92
Crivelli, Carlo 179
Cuckoo Club 14
Cuthbertson, Penny 139
Dachau concentration camp 44
Daily Mail 4, 11, 172
Daily Mirror 13
Dalí, Salvador, Un Chien Andalou 111
Dane Court preparatory school 54
Dane, Thomas 102
Dartington Hall school 49, 53, 121, 123
Davies, Kevin 37
Dawson, David xii, 5; as assistant to Lucian 1, 2–4, 18, 59, 128, 132, 228–34, 237; as artist 4; poses for Lucian 10, 144, 148, 157, 203, 227, 228, 231–3, 232; photographs Lucian 134, 170, 190, 202, 233; Talbot Road 4
Daylesford House, Gloucestershire 163
de la Mare, Walter 6; Memoirs of a Midget 98
de Stempel, Baron Michael 162
de Stempel, Sophie 161–8, 234–5, 236; Lucian’s portraits of 166–8, 167
Deakin, John, photographs Lucian 83, 136
Dean Street, Soho 148
Debenham, Angela, Lady (née Paget) 156
Debenham, Martin 155
Debenham, Sir Piers 156
Debenham, Susanna see Chancellor, Susanna
Dedham, Suffolk 54, 64, 65–6
Degas, Edgar 7
Delamere Terrace, Paddington 9, 51, 57, 58, 83, 110, 148, 182
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of 14, 24, 95, 96, 204
Devonshire, Deborah ‘Debo’, Duchess of 95–6, 139, 204
Diamond, Harry 133
Dietrich, Marlene 16, 67, 224
digital art 4, 6, 6, 191
Dix, Otto 79
d’Offay, Anthony 66, 142, 153, 154, 204–5, 206, 209, 211
Doherty, Pat 192–4, 193, 231
Douglas, Lord Alfred 87
Douglas, Norman 8
Drumnadrochit 75
Dublin 94–5
Dudley Ward, Freda 180
Dufferin, Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 103
Dufferin, Belinda ‘Lindy’, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava 191
Dufferin, Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava 97, 103, 108, 109, 110, 115–16, 117, 122
Dufferin, Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 111, 122, 125, 191
Dunn, Anne 97; affair with Lucian 92–9, 100–101, 102; marriage to Michael Wishart 92, 96–8; Lucian’s portraits of 94, 99, 237; raped 94; as artist 95, 101; pregnancies and children 95, 98–9, 102; marriage to Rodrigo Moynihan 99
Dunn, Douglas 39
Dunn, Irene, Lady 93–4, 95, 97
Dunn, Sir James 92
Dürer, Albrecht 42
Dyer, George 24, 28
Dylan, Bob 159
East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing 54–5, 64, 67, 70, 74; fire 66, 82
Edwards, Henrietta 142, 157
Edwards, John 28
Egg, Augustus 31
Eli (whippet) 10, 11, 147, 227
Eliot, Francis ‘Freddy’ (Lucian’s son) 12, 99, 144, 157, 219, 236
Eliot, Jacquetta, Countess of St Germans: Lucian’s portraits of 23, 145–6, 146; relationship with Lucian 57, 99–100, 139, 197, 220; appearance and character 99, 100; children 99, 220; family background 100; marriage to Earl of St Germans 100; photographs Lucian 133; and Lucian’s death 236
Eliot, Jago, Lord Eliot 220
Eliot, T. S. 6, 77; The Family Reunion 53
Elizabeth II, Queen 148, 227; Lucian’s portrait of 14, 48, 94, 142, 157, 234; Coronation 118, 155
Emin, Tracey 4, 211
Encounter (magazine) 127–8
Epstein, Sir Jacob 8–9, 79, 89, 177
Epstein, Kathleen, Lady (née Garman) 79, 89
Epstein, Margaret 89
Everett, James (Lucian’s grandson) 218
Everett, Peter (Lucian’s grandson) 218
expressionism 10, 204
Fell, Sheila 120
Fellowes, Robert, Baron 94
Ferry, Bryan 2
Festival of Britain (1951) 98
Fisch, Mark 48–9, 63, 135, 229
Flaubert, Gustave 7, 39, 161, 172
Fleming, Ann (earlier Viscountess Rothermere) 91, 105, 107, 111, 156, 163
Fleming, Ian 6, 105; Casino Royale 105
Formby, George 7
Forster, E. M. 47
Fraser, Lady Antonia 236
Freud, Ann (Lucian’s sister-in-law) 43, 50
Freud, Anna (Lucian’s aunt) 8
Freud, Annabel (Lucian’s daughter) 178, 179, 181, 184, 185, 217, 224, 235; Lucian paints 218–19
Freud, Annie (Lucian’s daughter): recollections of Lucian 39, 52, 57, 179, 181, 182–4; birth and childhood 92, 178–82, 215, 217, 224; relations with Lucian 133, 176, 178, 182, 183–7, 211–12, 235; Lucian paints 174, 175–8, 184–5, 219; poetry 182, 185, 187; adult life and motherhood 184–7, 211–12
Freud, Anton Walter (Lucian’s cousin) 46
Freud, Bella (Lucian’s daughter) 16, 34, 123, 133, 137, 162, 169, 175, 186, 217, 219–20, 221, 223; Lucian paints 165, 183, 187, 219, 220
Freud, Sir Clement (Lucian’s brother) 32; childhood and schooling 42, 43, 43, 45, 46, 49, 51, 53; relations with Lucian 48–51
Freud, Dorothy (Lucian’s niece) 236
Freud, Ernst (Lucian’s father): family background 41; career as architect 41, 42, 51–2, 154; thwarted artist 42, 59–60; relations with Lucian 42, 52, 55, 60, 61; flees Germany for England 10, 46; life in England 51–2, 73, 115; and Lucian’s schooling 53, 54–5; ill-health 58; death 23, 55, 57
Freud, Esther (Lucian’s daughter) 169, 175, 186, 219–20; Hideous Kinky 219–20; The Sea House 82
Freud, Jean-Martin (Lucian’s uncle) 46
Freud, Lucian: birth 10, 41; naming 41–2; childhood 10, 12, 41–6; family flees Germany for England 10, 12, 46, 47–8, 61; schooling 49, 51, 53–4, 70, 71; early paintings 52–3, 58, 64–5; art school 43, 48, 54–5, 63, 66, 70, 74–5; relationship with Felicity Hellaby 64–7, 69; relationship with Bettina Shaw-Lawrence 69–70, 74–5; merchant seaman 10, 14, 67–9, 194; relationship with Lorna Wishart 67, 77–8, 82–8, 93, 97; marriage to Kitty Garman 89, 92, 96, 147, 181; affair with Anne Dunn 92–9, 100–101, 102; marriage to Lady Caroline Blackwood 95, 103, 105–115, 116–17, 154; end of relationship with Caroline 103, 109–110, 115–16, 117–18; relationship with Suzy Boyt 135, 136, 175, 217; relationship with Katherine McAdam 175, 217–18; relationship with Bernardine Coverley 175, 197, 217, 219–22; relationship with Jacquetta Eliot 57, 99–100, 139, 197, 220; father’s death 23, 42, 57; relationship with Harriet Vyner 158–60, 161–2; relationship with Celia Paul 140–42, 160–61; relationship with Sophie de Stempel 161–8; mother’s death 42; relationship with Emily Bearn 156–8; relationship with Alexi Williams-Wynn 169–73; last days 28, 173, 228–31, 234–6; death 41, 224, 231; funeral 224, 236, 237; memorial service 163, 223; will 216, 234
Character & characteristics: accent and speaking voice 4, 32, 33, 55, 184, 191; ambition 61, 63, 131; appearance 2, 11, 32, 47; atheism 41; attitude to social class 12, 14, 48; bathing and cleanliness 133, 142; charisma 11, 13, 19, 61, 64, 225; clothes 1, 22, 24, 34, 54, 69, 133, 150, 154; compartmentalisation 164–5, 192; contrariness 16–17; conversation 6–8, 16, 190; cruelty 71–2, 99, 118, 124, 225; dancing 92; driving and cars 24, 38, 166; feuds 50–51, 84; fighting 14–15, 54, 70, 84, 148; food and dining 4, 12, 13–14, 15, 133, 199, 215; frankness 12, 112; gambling 24, 49, 133, 136, 143, 195–201, 214; generosity 17, 172, 196–7; handwriting 3; health 3, 133, 173, 182, 229; honours 6, 18, 227; horse-riding 42, 43, 86, 147, 201; literary tastes 6, 8, 38–40, 172; litigiousness 150–51, 217; love of animals 43, 4
7, 53, 147, 156; money and finances 3, 9, 17, 24, 49, 136, 195–201, 209, 213–14; musical tastes 159, 161–2, 166; obstinacy 33; playfulness 2, 16; politics 34; privacy 9, 16, 17, 23, 32, 33–4, 58, 60–61, 64, 67, 88, 148, 151, 168; punctuality 4, 127, 137, 203; selfishness 18, 61, 87–8, 109; sexuality and libido 2, 11, 27, 58–9, 63–4, 87, 92, 97, 139, 200; shopping 182; superstitions 41, 79, 199; working methods and schedule 2, 30, 52–3, 60, 63, 112–13, 127, 129–35, 141–3, 163–4, 189–91
Works: After Breakfast 156; After Cézanne 144–5; And the Bridegroom 236; Benefits Supervisor Sleeping 16, 17, 211, 215–16; The Big Man 209, 212–13; Blond Girl, Night Portrait 161, 166; The Brigadier 201–3; Daughter and Father 157; David Hockney 188, 189–92; Dead Heron 85; Donegal Man 192–4, 193; Donegal Man, Profile 194; Double Portrait 141–2, 156, 157; Figure with Bare Arms 179; Francis Bacon 28–30, 29; Girl in Bed 103, 104, 109, 120, 121, 122; Girl in a Blanket 118; Girl in a Dark Jacket 90; Girl with a Fig Leaf 90; Girl with a Kitten 90, 91, 147; Girl on the Quay 64–5, 65; Girl with Roses 90; Girl in a Striped Night-Shirt 141; Girl with a White Dog 90–91, 93; Grey Gelding 147; Guy and Speck 147, 165; Head of the Big Man 213; Hotel Bedroom 103–4, 108, 109, 114, 118, 120, 125; I Miss You 49; Interior Scene 94; Large Interior, W9 23, 145–6, 146; Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau) 183, 186–7, 222; Loch Ness Drumnadrochit 75; Lying by the Rags 166–8, 167; Man with a Blue Scarf 129; Naked Child Laughing 174, 175–8; Naked Girl 139; Naked Girl with Egg 141; Naked Man with His Friend 27; Naked Man with Rat 20, 21–2, 23–4, 25–7; Naked Portrait 211; Naked Solicitor 150; Nude with Leg Up 210; Painter and Model 140, 141, 141, 142; The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer 169–70, 171; The Painter’s Mother Resting I and II 55–7, 56; The Painter’s Room 85; Portrait of the Hound 10, 134, 227, 231–3, 232; Quince on a Blue Table 85; Red Haired Man on a Chair 102; Rose 222–3; Self-Portrait with a Black Eye 130; Skewbald Mare 147; Sleeping Head 159; Standing by the Rags 166; Sunny Morning – Eight Legs 144; Three-legged Horse (sculpture) 43; Two Plants 161; Waste Ground with Houses, Paddington 57; Woman with a Daffodil 77–9, 78; Woman in a Fur Coat 152, 154; Woman with a Tulip 77–9, 80, 82
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