The Lives of Lucian Freud

William Feaver, Lucian Freud’s collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most; and over many years, Freud narrated to him the story of his life, ‘our novel’. The result is this electrifying biography, shot through with Freud’s own words. In this second volume of Feaver’s definitive portrait of one of the most captivating artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we follow Freud – with wives and mistresses, children and gangsters, critics and collectors trailing in his wake – through the glittering landscape of stardom. Fame follows Freud at the height of his powers, painting the most iconic work of his career in a constant and dissatisfied pursuit of perfection, just outrunning his gambling debts and tailor’s bills.