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A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits

This unprecedented look at the private life of

Lucian Freud begins with childhood snapshots

and ends with rarely seen photographs made

in his studio in the last weeks of his life. In

between, the life of one of the most important

artists of the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries is vividly documented "; through family

photos, in images of the painter in his studio

with some of his most celebrated sitters, and

in portraits by his peers, first among them

Francis Bacon.

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Dawson, David
David Dawson is a painter and director of the Lucian Freud Archive. He was Freud´s studio assistant from 1991 until the painter´s death, and was a frequent model for his paintings.

Holborn, Mark
Mark Holborn is an editor and book designer who has worked with such diverse artists as Lucian Freud, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Issey Miyake, William Eggleston, and James Turrell. He edited, with David Dawson, the two-volume retrospective Lucian Freud (Phaidon 2018).

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