This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

Picture for a moment the dowdy holiday shopper who spots Geordie Greig’s new Lucian Freud biography, Breakfast with Lucian, at the bookstore and, taken in by the title and the old man on the cover, ...

Since Lucian Freud's (1922–2011) place in the contemporary pantheon has long seemed secure, it's surprising that this is the first biography of him - at least until readers get to the acknowledgments, ...

Lucian Freud, as presented in the gossipy new biography, Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Grieg, lived for 88 years entirely guilt-free, which is a remarkable bit of pathology in itself, but ...

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...

One of the principal thrills of The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 is that we are in the capable hands of William Feaver, The Observer’s longtime chief art critic. Here’s how he ...

On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the modern era, few artists have gripped ...

This first volume of two takes us to 1968 and its physical heft reflects the scale of the project, which began in 1973 when the critic and author Wiliam Feaver met Freud to interview him for the ...

Feaver’s narrative is shaped by the artist himself, who is rumoured to have paid his interlocutor off with a goodly sum to make sure the result was a posthumous publication. The result is the opposite ...

At the conclusion of William Feaver’s exhaustive (and exhausting) biography of the first forty-six years of Lucian Freud’s life, in 1968, the British painter is pretty much on the skids. Always a slow ...

The plural of anecdote is biography. “I shall mark what I remember of his conversation,” James Boswell resolved after meeting Samuel Johnson. The painter and critic William Feaver resolved similarly ...