Francis bacon painting of lucian freud biography

By signing up you agree to terms and conditions and privacy policy. I agree to the Art UK terms and conditions and privacy policy. Sign up to the Art UK newsletter , a weekly edit of insightful art stories. Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver — about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves.

The result is a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words.

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Bacon, Freud found, was better to talk to than anyone else he knew, deft and provocative, always stimulating. And he even agreed to be painted. He grumbled but sat well and consistently. Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud Freud saw it as a favour rendered. I couldn't do anything else as he owned the place and was thirty years older.