PROLOGUE
1Nanos Valaoritis, ‘Problems of an Empire’, Botteghe Oscure, no. 20, 1957, pp. 435–6.
1: ‘I LOVE GERMAN POETRY BUT I LOATHE THE GERMAN LANGUAGE’
1Magnus Linklater, ‘Throwing a pot of paint at the artist’, The Times, 22 August 1995.
2David Sylvester, ‘Recanting, No way, Brian’, Guardian, 25 August 1995.
3Geoffrey Holme (ed.), The Studio Year Book: Decorative Art 1934 (London: Studio, 1934).
4Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 14 September 2012.
5Gabriele Ullstein, conversation with the author, 6 October 1998.
6Clement Freud, Freud Ego (London: BBC Books, 2001), p. 12.
7Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism (London: Hogarth Press, 1939), p. 134.
8Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
9Michael Molnar (ed.), The Diary of Sigmund Freud, 1929–39 (London: Hogarth Press, 1992), p. 114.
10Richard ‘Wolf’ Mosse, interview with the author, 27 November 1998.
11Freud Museum Archives, London.
12Michael Hamburger, conversation with the author, 11 December 2000.
13Bertrand Russell, ‘Why Are Alien Groups Hated?’, Everyman, 6 October 1933.
14F. Yeats-Brown, editorial, Everyman, 31 January 1933. Everyman was known as the ‘First Fascist Organ’ from January 1933 to its closure in August of that year. ‘Germany is pre-War’ refers to the years of confidence before 1914.
2: ‘VERY MUCH A SLIGHTLY ARTISTIC PLACE’
1Freud Museum Archives.
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4Clement Freud, Freud Ego (London: BBC Books, 2001), p. 16.
5Glenys Roberts, ‘The Forgotten Freud’, Daily Mail, 23 April 2009.
6Quoted in Michael Molnar, Looking through Freud’s Photos (London: Karnac Books, 2015), p. 116.
7Poem ‘Blythburgh 1910’ by Humphrey Jennings, 1943, quoted in Marylou Jennings, Introduction, Humphrey Jennings: Film-maker, Painter, Poet (London: BFI, 1982), p. 6.
8Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: London North (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952), p. 198.
9Jack Baer, letter to the author, 21 October 1998.
10This fund was formally set up in November 1937.
11Adrian Heath, letter to the author, 18 October 2012.
12Richard Dorment, ‘Master of the Art of Dealing’, Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2001.
13W. H. Auden and John Garrett, The Poet’s Tongue (London: George Bell, 1935), p. vii.
3: ‘MY MOTHER STARTED WORSHIPPING IT SO I SMASHED IT’
1Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism (London: Hogarth Press, 1939), p. 93.
4: ‘TO CUT A TERRIFIC DASH’
1Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud (London: Thames & Hudson, 1982), p. 8.
2Peter Noble, Reflected Glory (London: Jarrolds, 1958).
3Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
4Also ‘Everything that you can imagine is real.’
5Felicity Hellaby, phone conversation with the author, 19 February 2012.
6T. W. Earp, Introduction, Flower and Still Life Painting, ed. Geoffrey Holme (London: Studio, 1928), p. 19.
7John Bensusan-Butt, ‘Baronet with Palette’, Essex County Standard, 16 October 1959, quoted in Richard Morphet, Cedric Morris (London: Tate Gallery, 1984), p. 93.
8Sigmund Freud, letter to Marie Bonaparte, August 1939, cited in Mark Edmundson, The Death of Sigmund Freud (London: Bloomsbury, 2010).
5: ‘A PRIVATE LANGUAGE’
1LF (Lucian Freud) letter to Cedric Morris, n.d., Cedric Morris papers, Tate Archive, London.
2David Kentish, letter to Joan Warburton, n.d., Joan Warburton papers, Tate Archive.
3LF letter to Cedric Morris, n.d., Cedric Morris papers, Tate Archive.
4LF letter to Arthur Lett-Haines, n.d., Tate Archive.
5LF recollection of conversation with William Coldstream, n.d.
6Stephen Spender, letter to Mary Elliott [1940], Stephen Spender papers, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (previously in Sotheby’s sale July 2015).
7David Plante, Becoming a Londoner (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 308.
8David Kentish, letter to Joan Warburton, January 1940, Warburton papers, Tate Archive.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11Ibid.
12Ibid.
13W. H. Auden, Poem XXX, Look, Stranger! (London: Faber & Faber, 1936).
14Ludwig Goldscheider, El Greco (London: Phaidon, 1938).
15Stephen Spender, ‘Exiles from This Land’, The Still Centre (London: Faber & Faber, 1939).
16LF letter to Joan Warburton, January 1940, Tate Archive.
17David Kentish, letter to Joan Warburton, 25 January 1940, Tate Archive.
18David Kentish, letter to Joan Warburton, 28 January 1940, Tate Archive.
19Stephen Spender, letter to Joan Warburton, n.d., Tate Archive.
20LF from memory.
6: ‘BORN NAUGHTY’
1Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863), in Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists (London: Penguin Books, 1972 (1951)), pp. 399–400.
2John Russell, Introduction to Hayward catalogue, Lucian Freud 1974 (London: Arts Council, 1974), p. 7.
3Geoffrey Grigson, Recollections (London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1984), p. 44.
4Ruthven Todd, letter to the author, 4 February 1972.
5Stephen Spender, ‘The Room above the Square’, The Still Centre (London: Faber & Faber, 1939).
6Ibid.
7Michael Wishart, High Diver (London: Blond & Briggs, 1977), p. 27.
8Ernst Freud, letter to Arthur Lett-Haines, 1940, Tate Archive.
9Ibid.
10LF letter to Stephen Spender, n.d., Stephen Spender papers, Tate Archive.
11LF quoting Cedric Morris.
12W. H. Auden, ‘The Capital’ (1939).
13LF letter to Stephen Spender [1940], Sotheby’s sale, 2 July 2015.
14The Comte de Lautréamont [Isidore Ducasse], The Lay of Maldoror, trans. John Rodker (London: Casanova Society, 1924).
15Ibid.
16David Gascoyne, Short Survey of Surrealism (London: Frank Cass, 1935), p. 10.
7: ‘I USED TO ALWAYS PUT SECRETS IN. I STILL DO’
1British Restaurants: An Inquiry Made by the National Council of Social Services (London: Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 3.
2Peter Noble, Reflected Glory (London: Jarrolds, 1958).
3Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (London: Faber & Faber, 2012).
4George Millar, Isabel and the Sea (London: William Heinemann, 1948), p. 364.
5Official Log-Book: Foreign-Going or a Home-Trade Ship, Ship 132840. Time Stamped 18 August 1941. Marine Safety Agency, Cardiff.
6George Millar, Isabel and the Sea (London: William Heinemann, 1948), p. 364.
7The Essential Work (Merchant Navy) Order made it compulsory for anyone leaving a ship to be retained in the Merchant Navy Reserve Pool.
8Ian Collins, John Craxton (Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2011), p. 44.
8: ‘SLIGHTLY NOTORIOUS’
1Manpower (London: Ministry of Information, 1944), p. 47.
2Felicity Hellaby, phone conversation with the author, 19 February 2012.
3In 1983, two years after she died, Mary Keene’s novel Mrs Donald, written in the early 1950s, was published, belatedly vindicating her claims. Mrs Donald, ed. Alice Thomas Ellis, with an epilogue by Keene’s daughter Alice (London: Chatto & Windus, 1983).
4LF recollection.
5One of eleven letters from LF to Felicity Hellaby sold by Sotheby’s London, 13 February 2014, now in a private collection.
6Ibid.
7Felicity Hellaby, phone conversation with the author, 19 February 2012.
8Winston Churchill broadcast, BBC, 15 February 1942.
9Natasha Spender, conversation with the author, 14 October 2008.
10LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
11Ibid.
12Felicity Hellaby, phone conversation with the author, 19 February 2012.
9: ‘SLIGHT DREIGROSCHENOPER’
1Simon Martin interview, ‘John Craxton: A Romantic Spirit’, Pallant House Gallery Magazine, Chichester, 11 March 2007, p. 26.
2Marriott Edgar, ‘The Lion and Albert’ (1930), www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdbxTGxTM.
3Ian Collins, John Craxton (Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2011), p. 45.
4Ibid., p. 55.
5LF’s recollection.
6Kenneth Clark, Listener, 22 February 1940.
7Kenneth Clark, New Statesman, 30 January 1943.
8Catherine Porteous, letter to the author, 1999.
9LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
10Ibid.
11Dan Davin, Closing Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 103.
12LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
13Ibid.
14Ibid.
15Kenneth Clark, ‘Ornament in Modern Architecture’, Architectural Review, December 1943, p. 150.
16LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
17David Gascoyne, Journal (London: Enitharmon, 1991), p. 57.
18Robert Fraser, Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 197.
19Ibid.
20LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
21Ibid.
22Vivienne Light, Circles and Tangents: Art in the Shadow of Cranborne Chase (Morcombelake: Canterton Press, 2011), p. 181.
23Simon Martin interview, ‘John Craxton: A Romantic Spirit’.
24Geoffrey Grigson, extended caption in Lilliput, vol. 22, no. 8, June 1948, p. 42.
25Horizon, April 1942.
26The Comte de Lautréamont [Isidore Ducasse], The Lay of Maldoror, trans. John Rodker (London: Casanova Society, 1924).
27Light, Circles and Tangents, p. 179.
28Lautréamont, The Lay of Maldoror, Sixth Book, part 7.
29John Craxton, conversation with the author, 25 March 1999.
30Simon Martin interview, ‘John Craxton: A Romantic Spirit’, p. 28.
31Peter Watson, letter to LF, n.d., private collection.
10: ‘A QUESTION OF FOCUS’
1Quoted in Cressida Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans (London: Fourth Estate, 2004), p. 136.
2Laurie Lee, ‘Good Morning’, Penguin New Writing, 16, January–March 1943, p. 11.
3Valerie Grove, Laurie Lee: The Well-Loved Stranger (London: Viking, 1999/Robson Press, 2014), p. 178.
4Ibid., p. 179.
5Ibid., p. 173.
6The fictional characteristics of Laurie Lee’s reportage in A Moment of War (London: Viking, 1991) were widely remarked on at the time of publication.
7From ‘Song in the Morning’, Laurie Lee, The Sun My Monument (London: Hogarth Press, 1944).
8Grove, Laurie Lee, p. 174.
9Michael Wishart, High Diver (London: Blond & Briggs, 1977), p. 6.
10Grove, Laurie Lee, p. 174.
11Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 176.
12Grove, Laurie Lee, p. 173.
13Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 174.
14LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
15Saki (H. H. Monro), ‘The She-Wolf’, in Beasts and Super-Beasts (New York: The Viking Press, 1914).
16Bruce Bernard, ‘Four Painters’, essay commissioned by British Council, MSS p. 1, private collection.
17Ibid., p. 2.
18John Craxton, letter to Elsie Queen Nicholson (EQ), Tate Archive, reproduced in Ian Collins, John Craxton (Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2011), p. 62.
19LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
20Charles Wrey Gardiner, Introduction to M. Lindsey, Sailing Tomorrow’s Seas (London: Fortune, 1944), p. 5.
21Tambimuttu had employed Moore briefly as his assistant.
22Stephen Spender, Horizon, December 1944.
23A Ratepayer, ‘Plea for the Appointment of an Architect for Paddington’s New Housing Scheme’, Architect’s Journal, 28 April 1938.
24Stephen Spender, Air Raids, War Pictures by British Artists series (London: Oxford University Press, 1943), p. 8.
25W. H. Auden, ‘To a Writer on His Birthday’, Poem XXX, Look, Stranger! (London: Faber & Faber, 1936).
26Charles Wrey Gardiner, The Dark Thorn (London: Grey Walls Press, 1946), p. 138.
11: ‘LIVING IN A DUMP AND GOING OUT TO SOMEWHERE PALATIAL’
1Marie Paneth, Branch Street (London: Allen & Unwin, 1944), p. 34.
2Charlie Lumley interviewed by Michael Macaulay for Sotheby’s catalogue, 13 October 2011, p. 76.
3Ibid.
4Julian Trevelyan, Indigo Days (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957), p. 183.
5Evening Standard, 23 November 1944.
6Michael Ayrton, Spectator, 1 December 1944.
7Ibid.
8Ian Collins, John Craxton (Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2011), p. 59.
9Herbert Read, Introduction, Kurt Schwitters (London: Modern Art Gallery, December 1944).
10Ibid.
11The Times Literary Supplement, 17 March 1945, remarked that Moore ‘talks volubly in verse’.
12Charles Wrey Gardiner, The Dark Thorn (London: Grey Walls Press, 1946), p. 104.
13Ibid., p. 35.
14Ibid., pp. 39, 104.
15Ibid., p. 25.
16Ibid., p. 11.
17Ibid., p. 107.
18Michael Luke, David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991), p. 169.
19Ernst Freud quoted by LF.
20Michael Hamburger, conversation with the author, 11 December 2000.
21Gabriele Ullstein, conversation with the author, 6 October 1998.
22Dick ‘Wolf’ Mosse, conversation with the author, 27 November 1998.
23John Lehmann, I Am My Brother: Autobiography, vol. 2 (London: Longmans, 1962), pp. 313–14. See also Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), pp. 161–2: Ernst Freud ‘was well liked by the Marylebone authorities’. He served as Pryce-Jones’ house-restoration architect, yet ‘when the law descended … Freud told the authorities that he was only a colour consultant and that I had acted illegally quite on my own.’
24Valerie Grove, Laurie Lee: The Well-Loved Stranger (London: Viking, 1999), ch. 11 passim.
25Luke, David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years, p. 171.
26Norman Bentwich, I Understand the Risks (London: Victor Gollancz, 1950), pp. 111–12, 135–6.
27Cyril Connolly, ‘Comment’, Horizon, September 1945, p. 152.
28Times Literary Supplement, 28 March 1975, p. 827.
29John Sutherland, Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography (London: Viking, 2004), p. 303.
30Gardiner, The Dark Thorn, p. 75.
31Anne Ridler, ‘Islands of Scilly’ (‘a clutch of islands, every one distinct’), Collected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1972).
32John Craxton, conversation with the author, 25 March 1999.
33Joan Wyndham, Anything Once (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993), p. 8.
34Ibid.
35Ibid.
36Maurice Collis, Observer, February 1946.
37Michael Ayrton, ‘Some Young British Contemporary Painters’, Orion III (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946), pp. 84–7.
12: ‘FRENCH MALEVOLENCE’
1LF letter to his mother [August 1946], Freud Archives, National Portrait Gallery, London.
2Christian Morgenstern, ‘Das Hemmed’, Galgenlieder (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1905).
3Herbert Read, ‘Art in Paris Now’, Listener, 16 August 1945.
4Herbert Read, ‘British Children’s Art in Paris’, Athene, vol. III, no. 3, Winter 1945, p. 112.
5Jean-Pierre Lacloche, Olivier Larronde: Oeuvres poétiques complètes (Paris: Le Promeneur, 2002), p. 27.
6Stephen Spender, Horizon, July 1945, p. 9.
7Alexander Watt, ‘The Art World of Paris’, part 1, Studio, December 1946, p. 172.
8Albert Camus, The Outsider, trans. Joseph Laredo (London: Penguin Books, 1983).
9Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘The Childhood of a Leader’, The Wall (Paris: Gallimard, 1939).
10Michael Wishart, High Diver (London: Blond & Briggs, 1977), p. 27.
11Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 9 January 2013.
12Ibid.
13Wishart, High Diver, p. 37.
14John Margetson, letter to the author, 18 September 2002.
15Marie Bonaparte, Myths of War (London: Imago, 1947), p. 132.
16Diane Deriaz, trapeze artiste from the Pinder Circus.
17Jean Dubuffet, Notes pour les fins-lettrés (Paris: Gallimard, 1946).
13: ‘THE WORLD OF OVID’
1John Craxton, letter to Elsie Queen Nicholson (EQ), n.d. [1946], Tate Archive.
2Norman Dodds MP, Stanley Tiffany MP and Leslie Soley MP, Tragedy in Greece: An Eye-witness Report (London: Progress Publishing/League for Democracy in Greece, 1946), p. 62.
3Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941).
4Geoffrey Grigson, John Craxton: Paintings and Drawings, unpaginated monograph (London: Horizon, 1948).
5John Craxton, conversation with the author, 25 March 1999.
6Nanos Valaoritis, letter to the author, 13 May 1999, citing Botteghe Oscure, no. 20, 1957, pp. 435–6.
7LF letter to his mother Lucie, n.d. [1947].
8George Millar, Isabel and the Sea (London: William Heinemann, 1948), p. 356.
9Ibid., pp. 357–8.
10Ibid., p. 359.
11Ibid., p. 358.
12George Millar, Preface, Horned Pigeon (London: William Heinemann, 1949).
13Millar, Isabel and the Sea, p. 359.
14Ibid., p. 363.
15John Craxton, letter to EQ, n.d. [1946], Tate Archive.
16John Craxton, letter to EQ, n.d., Tate Archive.
17Millar, Isabel and the Sea, p. 359.
18Michael Ayrton on Freud and Minton, ‘Some Young British Contemporary Painters’, Orion III (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946), p. 87. ‘Whilst not British in origin, he [Freud] may be said to be of the “School of London”.’
19Independent, 7 September 1994.
20Millar, Isabel and the Sea, p. 379.
21Ibid., p. 381.
22Ibid., p. 364.
23Nanos Valaoritis, ‘Modern Greek Poetry’, Horizon, March 1946.
24Millar, Isabel and the Sea, p. 371.
25Ibid., pp. 393–4.
26LF letter to Felicity Hellaby (private collection).
27Grigson, John Craxton: Paintings and Drawings.
14: ‘FREE SPIRITS LIKE ME’
1Cressida Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans (London: Fourth Estate, 2004), p. 216.
2W. H. Auden, ‘Death’s Echo’ (1936).
3Kenneth Tynan, Diaries, ed. John Lahr (London: Bloomsbury, 2002), 12 April 1971, p. 40.
4Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
5Kenneth Clark in Epstein Centenary catalogue, Ben Uri Gallery, London, p. 3.
6Kenneth Clark, Henry Moore Drawings (London: Thames & Hudson, 1974), p. 114.
7Jacob Epstein, letter to LF, n.d. [1949], private collection.
8Dilys Powell, review of The Blue Lamp, Sunday Times, January 1950, reprinted in Shots in the Dark (London: Allan Wingate, 1951), p. 127.
9Waldemar Hansen, letter to John Myers, 4 May 1947, private collection.
10Michael Hamburger, letter to the author, 5 December 2000.
11June Rose, Time, 26 May 1947.
12Bernard Denvir, ‘Wilfred Evill’, Studio, February 1949, p. 44.
13Kitty Garman, letter to Kathleen (Epstein), July 1947, Walsall Art Gallery Archives.
14Ibid.
15LF letter to Meraud Guinness, Tate Archive.
16LF letter to Meraud Guinness, Tate Archive.
17LF letter to Meraud Guinness, Tate Archive.
18Herbert Read, Introduction, Exposition de la Jeune Peinture en Grande Bretagne, British Council/La Galerie René Drouin, 23 January–21 February 1948.
19Robin Ironside, Painting since 1939 (London: British Council, 1947), p. 36.
20Studio, December 1947.
21Bernard Denvir, Tribune, November 1947.
22Maurice Collis, Time & Tide, November 1947.
23Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 2013.
24Kitty Garman, conversation with the author, 17 February 2000.
25Nanos Valaoritis, ‘Problems of an Empire’, Botteghe Oscure, no. 20, 1957, pp. 435–6.
15: ‘ME WITH HORNS’
1LF to Felicity Hellaby, n.d. [1947] (private collection).
2Felicity Hellaby, conversation with the author, 19 February 2012.
3Richard Buckle, The Adventures of a Ballet Critic (London: Cresset Press, 1953), p. 133.
4A. L. Lloyd, ‘An Artist Makes a Living’, Picture Post, 21 December 1946, pp. 22–4.
5Collotypes of Girl in a White Dress and Chicken on a Table were published in Oliver Simon’s Signature 10 (London: Curwen Press, 1950).
6William Sansom, Equilibriad (London: Hogarth Press, 1948), p. 17.
7Kitty Epstein (Godley), conversation with the author, 2000.
16: ‘FED SWEETS BY NUNS ON THE COACH TO GALWAY’
1Cited in Roger Berthoud, Graham Sutherland: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1982), p. 247.
2Douglas Cooper, conversation with the author, BBC Radio 3, 6 July 1983.
3Graham Sutherland, letter to Robert Melville, November 1948, Robert Melville papers, Tate Archive.
4Cecil Beaton on Bérard, from Ballet magazine, quoted in Christian Bérard, exhibition brochure (London: Arts Council, 1950).
5Lucian Freud: Portraits (2004), film directed by Jake Auerbach, produced by Jake Auerbach and William Feaver.
6Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
7Anne Dunn, letter to LF, n.d., from Zetland Hotel Galway, private collection.
8Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11Ibid.
12Ibid.
13Samuel Beckett, ‘Homage to Jack Yeats’ (1954), reprinted in Disjecta (London: John Calder, 1983), p. 148. ‘Strangeness so entire as even to withstand the stock assimilations to holy patrimony’.
14Later collected in After the Wake, ‘twenty-one prose works including previously unpublished material’ (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1981).
15William Townsend, Journals: An Artist’s Record of His Times, 1928–51, ed. Andrew Forge (London: Tate Publishing, 1976), p. 82.
16Ibid., p. 88.
17Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
18Beaton, quoted in Christian Bérard.
19Christian Bérard, reported by LF.
20Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
21Ibid.
22Ibid. Derek Jackson, 1906–82: one-time chairman of the News of the World, six marriages, two of which were to the femme fatale Barbara Skelton and Janetta Woolley.
23Ibid.
24Ibid.
25Ibid.
26Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, April 2010.
27Ibid.
17: ‘MY LARGE ROOM IN PADDINGTON!’
1Balthus, quoted in Jean Clair, Balthus (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001), p. 131.
2Balthus, interview by David Bowie, Modern Painters, vol. 7, no. 3, 1994, p. 194.
3Cyril Connolly, ‘Comment’, Horizon, November 1947, p. 227.
4Robin Ironside, ‘Balthus’, Horizon, April 1948, p. 266.
5Lawrence Gowing, Introduction to William Coldstream catalogue (London: Arts Council, 1962), p. 12.
6Geoffrey Grigson, ‘Remarks on Painting and Mr Auden’, New Verse, January 1939, p. 19.
7LF comment.
8William Coldstream, interview by Rodrigo Moynihan, ‘A Nonconformist’, Art and Literature, 4, 1965, p. 208.
9BBC Third Programme, reprinted in the Listener, 5 February 1947.
10Nicholas Garland, letter to the author, 17 March 2000.
11George Orwell, The English People (London: Collins, 1947), p. 8.
12Bill Brandt, Camera in London (London: Focal Press, 1948), p. 14.
13Stephen Spender, editorial, Horizon, July 1945.
14William Plomer, ‘Voyage autour de W2’, in John Sutro (ed.), Diversion: 22 Authors on the Lively Arts (London: Max Parrish, 1950), p. 211.
15Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), ch. 19.
16Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 9 March 2012.
17Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
18Colin MacInnes in Mark Haworth-Booth (ed.), The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986), p. 73.
19Cyril Connolly, ‘Comment’, Horizon, November 1948, p. 299.
20Michael Hamburger, conversation with the author, 11 December 2000.
21Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
22Ibid.
18: ‘MY NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT’
1Percy Wyndham Lewis, Listener, 14 July 1949.
2Patrick Heron, New Statesman, 25 March and 29 April 1950.
3Wyndham Lewis, Listener, 17 November 1949, p. 860.
4The Comte de Lautréamont [Isidore Ducasse], ‘Midway’ Chant 6, The Lay of Maldoror, trans. John Rodker (London: Casanova Society, 1924).
5Frances Spalding, Dance till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991), p. 149.
6Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
7Heron, New Statesman, 29 April 1950.
8Spalding, Dance till the Stars Come Down, p. 149.
9William Townsend, The Townsend Journals: An Artist’s Record of His Times, 1928–51, ed. Andrew Forge (London: Tate Publishing, 1976), p. 88.
10Heron, New Statesman, 29 April 1950.
11‘Freud the Younger’, Flair, February 1952, pp. 32–3.
12Lincoln Kirstein, autobiographical notes, Quarry (privately printed, 1986), p. 107.
13Lincoln Kirstein letter [1953], British Council Archives.
14Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
15LF quoting Cyril Connolly.
16Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
17Ibid.
19: ‘BEING ABLE TO SEE UNDER THE CARPET’
1Charlie Lumley, letter to LF, n.d. [1950], private collection.
2Harry Diamond, conversation with the author, April 2003.
3Ibid.
4Albert Camus, ‘Absurd Creation’, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 87.
5George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (London: Penguin reissue, 1954), p. 176.
6Harry Diamond, conversation with the author, April 2003.
7Graham Sutherland, ‘Some Thoughts on Painting’, Listener, 6 September 1951.
8Albert Camus, The Outsider, trans. Joseph Laredo (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946), part 2, ch. 2.
9David Sylvester, Burlington Magazine, October 1951, p. 329.
10Ibid.
11The Comte de Lautréamont [Isidore Ducasse], The Lay of Maldoror, trans. John Rodker (London: Casanova Society, 1924).
12Harry Diamond, conversation with the author, April 2003.
13LF Archives, NPG (National Portrait Gallery).
14Alice Keene, The Two Mr Smiths: The Life and Work of Sir Matthew Smith (London: Lund Humphries/Corporation of London 1995).
15William Blake, ‘Miscellaneous Epigrams’, XIV, The Poetry and Prose of William Blake (London: Nonesuch Press, 1948), p. 107.
16Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
20: ‘TRUE TO ME’
1Richard Hamilton, letter to the author, 12 January 1999.
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4Ibid.
5Herbert Read, Art and Industry (London: Faber & Faber, 1934), Introduction.
6Richard Hamilton, letter to the author, 12 January 1999.
7Herbert Read, Contemporary British Art (London: Penguin Books, 1951), p. 25.
8Ibid., p. 35.
9Ernst Gombrich, Meditations on a Hobby Horse (London: Phaidon, 1963), part 2.
10Ibid., part 9.
11Francis Bacon, conversation with LF.
12Charlie Lumley, ‘I’m the Boy in Freud Painting’, by Louise Jury, Evening Standard, 1 September 2011.
13Letter from John Minton to Michael Wishart, quoted in Frances Spalding, Dance till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991), p. 14.
14H. L. Hunter with Cecil Whiley, Leaves of Gold (London: George M. Whiley, 1951); this was a company history commissioned by George M. Whiley Ltd, goldbeaters of Covent Garden.
15Augustus John, ‘Fragment of an Autobiography’, Horizon, December 1945.
16Graham Sutherland, BBC Third Programme, reprinted in the Listener, 4 December 1951.
17Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
18Ibid.
19T. S. Eliot, ‘Sweeney Erect’, Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920).
20Robert Melville, ‘Francis Bacon’, Horizon, December 1949, p. 421.
21Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
22Ibid.
23Richard Hamilton, letter to the author, 12 January 1999.
24A. J. Ayer, More of My Life (London: Collins, 1984), p. 79.
25Henry Green, Doting (London: Hogarth Press, 1952), p. 252.
26Michael Luke, David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991), p. 182.
27Andrée Melly, letter to LF [c. 1993], private archive.
28Henrietta Moraes, Henrietta (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994), p. 31.
29Michael Hamburger, conversation with the author, 11 December 2000.
30William Empson, ‘This Last Pain’ (the last line reads ‘And learn a style from a despair’), Collected Poems (London: Chatto & Windus, 1956).
31John Berger, New Statesman, 5 January 1952.
32Francis Bacon in Matthew Smith: Paintings from 1909 to 1952 (London: Tate Gallery, 1953), p. 12.
33Ibid.
34David Sylvester, Listener, 8 May 1952.
35Michael Middleton, Spectator, May 1952.
36Robert Melville, art column in Architectural Review, May 1952.
21: ‘LADY DASHWOOD, SORRY TO HAVE KICKED YOU’
1Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), p. 13.
2Michael Middleton, John Minton catalogue (London: Arts Council, 1958), p. 7.
3Ibid.
4Peter Quennell (ed.), A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), p. 88.
5Ann Fleming, The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (London: Collins, 1985), p. 123.
6Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), p. 164.
7Ivana Lowell, ‘Lucian Freud – His Scandalous Private Life’, Newsweek, 8 July 2011.
8Anne Dunn, conversation with the author, 16 April 2000.
9Kitty Garman, postcard to LF, n.d. [1952].
10Lucie Freud, letter to Ernst Freud, Freud Museum Archive.
11Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
12Ibid.
13Jacob Epstein, letter to Peggy-Jean, his daughter, 17 January 1955, Tate Archive.
22: ‘A MARVELLOUS CHASE FEELING’
1Lucian Freud, letter to Ann Fleming, March 1953, The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (London: Collins, 1985), p. 125.
2Caroline Blackwood, letter to LF, private collection.
3Caroline Blackwood, letter to LF, n.d. [1953], from Ritz Hotel, Madrid, private collection.
4LF quoting Fleur Cowles.
5LF commenting.
6Ann Fleming to Evelyn Waugh, Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 129.
7Lucian Freud, ‘Some Thoughts on Painting’, Encounter, July 1954, p. 23.
8Cyril Connolly, Journal and Memoir, ed. David Pryce-Jones (London: Collins, 1983), p. 238.
9Michael Kimmelman, New York Times magazine, 2 April 1995; see also Lucian Freud: Early Works catalogue (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1993).
10Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Penguin Books, 1982), p. 273.
11Peter Quennell (ed.), A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), 29 September 1953, p. 88.
12Caroline Blackwood, interview by Janet Watts, ‘The Man I Knew Is Missing’, Observer, 1 May 1983.
13LF letter to Lilian Somerville, 17 July 1953, British Council Archives.
14Ibid.
15Ibid.
16Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), p. 135.
17Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries, 1948–55 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), pp. 133–4.
18Ibid.
19Caroline Blackwood, ‘The Interview’, first published in the London Magazine, 1972, reprinted in Caroline Blackwood, For All That I Found There (London: Duckworth, 1973) as a fictional reminiscence of life with an ‘oddly honourable’ painter, the interview involving ‘my whole past … being thrown back at me all curiously curdled and distorted’, p. 62.
20Tania Stern, letter to Lucie Freud, n.d. [1953], Freud Museum Archives.
21Evelyn Waugh, letter to Nancy Mitford, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 423.
23: ‘MY ARDOUR IN THE LONG PURSUIT’
1Cyril Connolly, letter to Olga Rudge, 16 November 1970, quoted in Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997), p. 548.
2Caroline Blackwood, ‘Portraits by Freud’, New York Review of Books, 16 December 1993.
3Anne Dunn, in Lucian Freud: Portraits (2004), film directed by Jake Auerbach, produced by Jake Auerbach and William Feaver.
4LF letter to Lilian Somerville, January 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
5LF letter to Lilian Somerville, 18 January 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
6Lilian Somerville, letter to Alfred Barr, February 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
7Ibid.
8Lilian Somerville, letter to LF, 26 February 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
9LF letter to Lilian Somerville, n.d. [1954], British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
10Caroline Blackwood, in Lucian Freud: Early Works catalogue (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1993), p. 14.
11Lilian Somerville, telegram to LF, April 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
12Ibid.
13MS, private collection.
14LF letter to Lilian Somerville, April 1954, British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
15Lilian Somerville, telegram to LF, n.d. [April 1954], British Council Venice Biennale Archive.
16Herbert Read, Foreword, catalogue for British Pavilion, Nicholson Bacon Freud, Venice Biennale, 1954.
17John Rothenstein, catalogue for British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1954, pp. 3–4.
18David Sylvester, catalogue for British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1954, p. 3.
19Alfred Frankfurter, ‘European Speculations’, Artnews, September 1954, p. 23.
20Herbert Read, Contemporary British Art (Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1st edn, 1951), p. 35.
21Herbert Read, Contemporary British Art (London: Pelican Books, revised edn, 1964), p. 35.
22Douglas Cooper, Burlington Magazine, October 1954.
23‘Ephraim Hardcastle’ column, Sunday Express, 16 May 1954.
24Colin Tennant, Christie’s catalogue, London sale, 11 December 1997.
25Ann Fleming, letter to Joan Rayner and Patrick Leigh Fermor, 23 August 1954, in The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (London: Collins, 1985), p. 141.
26Vic(tor) Willing, Selected Writings (London: Karsten Schubert, 1993), p. 34.
27Evelyn Waugh, letter to Anne Fleming, 5 May 1954, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 424.
28David Storey interviewed by Jasper Rees, www.theartsdesk.com, 2 November 2013.
24: ‘IDYLLIC, IN A SLIGHTLY MADDENING WAY’
1Henrietta Moraes had a son by Colin Tennant in 1954, unrecognised until 2009, a decade after her death, when DNA tests were initiated by this son, Joshua Bowler.
2Performance (1970), film directed by Donald Cammell/Nicholas Roeg, in which James Fox plays a gangster merging personalities with Mick Jagger, cast as a reclusive rock star.
3David Thomson, Independent on Sunday, 19 May 2004.
4Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
5George Melly, Owning Up, trilogy (London: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 490.
6Keiron Pim, Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock ’n’ Roll Underworld (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016), pp. 95–101 and passim.
7David Litvinoff committed suicide in 1975.
8Kenneth Clark, Moments of Vision, Romanes Lecture 1954 (London: John Murray, 1973).
9Lawrence Alloway, ‘London Letter’, Artnews, November 1954, p. 54.
10John Minton, ‘Three Young Contemporaries’, Ark 13, Spring 1955.
11David Sylvester, ‘The Kitchen Sink’, Encounter, December 1954.
12Jack Smith, in catalogue The Forgotten Fifties (Sheffield: Graves Art Gallery, 1984), p. 49.
13Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
14Helen Lessore, Partial Testament (London: Tate Publishing, 1987).
15John Berger, New Statesman, April 1955.
16‘What is the Secret of This Picture?’, Daily Express, 20 April 1955, p. 9.
17Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
18Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (London: Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 164.
19Ibid., pp. 172–3.
20Ibid., p. 172.
21LF, letter to Stephen Spender, 24 October 1982, Sotheby’s, London, 2 July 2015.
22Obliterated by a subsequent owner, once it became known that a Freud mural probably survived under the white paint it was unveiled again some fifty years later.
23Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948–55 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), April 1955.
24Charlie Lumley, interview with Michael Macaulay, ‘Sitting for Lucian Freud’, Sotheby’s catalogue for 13 October 2011 sale, p. 176.
25Michael Andrews, letter to the author, 12 August 1985.
26Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
27Samuel Beckett, Disjecta (London: John Calder, 1983), p. 148.
28LF letter to Clement Freud, c. 1954, recited from memory.
29Clement Freud, Freud Ego (London: BBC Books, 2001), p. 120.
25: ‘MAD ON HEAT AND RUNNING ROUND, PISSING ALL THE TIME’
1David Sylvester, Art News and Review, 17 June 1955.
2The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, ed. Neville Braybrooke (London: Duckworth, 1975), p. 116.
3That autumn Eden fell ill and took refuge in Jamaica at Goldeneye.
4Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 20 October 1956, quoted in Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997), p. 488.
5Cyril Connolly, letter to Caroline Blackwood, quoted in Lewis, Cyril Connolly, p. 487.
6Ibid., p. 488.
7Ibid.
8Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11David Sylvester, Listener, 12 January 1956.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
13Ibid.
14Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (London: Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 240.
15Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 304–5.
16Cecil Beaton, The Restless Years: Diaries 1955–63 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976), May 1956, pp. 44–5.
17Spender, New Selected Journals, p. 221.
18Stephen Spender, New Statesman, 12 May 1956.
19Spender, New Selected Journals, p. 248.
20John Minton, reported in the Daily Express, 19 May 1956.
21Andrew Forge, ‘We Dream of Motor Cars’, Encounter, January 1956, p. 68.
22Edward Booth Clibborn, a nephew of Nina Hamnett, remembered seeing Freud in the hospital corridor. Letter to the author, 31 March 2016. Nina Hamnett died in December 1956.
26: ‘DO YOU THINK I’M MADE OF WOOD?’
1John Minton, reported in the Daily Express, 19 May 1956.
2David Wynne-Morgan, ‘Yesterday There Died a Purple, Melancholy Genius’, Daily Express, 21 January 1957.
3Unidentified newspaper cutting.
4Ivana Lowell [Caroline’s daughter by Israel Citkowitz], Why Not Say What Happened? (London: Bloomsbury, 2010), p. 23.
5A. E. Ellis, The Rack (London: William Heinemann, 1958). The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, had murdered her lover in 1955.
6Christopher Isherwood, Diaries, vol. 1: 1939–60, ed. Katharine Bucknell (London: Methuen, 1996), February 1959, p. 303.
7Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), pp. 232–3.
8Matthew Marks, letter to the author, April 2013.
9Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, interviewed by the author in Lucian Freud: Portraits (2004), film directed by Jake Auerbach, produced by Jake Auerbach and William Feaver.
10Fritz Hess, letter to LF, 21 January 1957, private collection.
11Ernst Freud, letter to Fritz Hess, 1 February 1957.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 2014.
13Henry Green in Matthew Smith: Paintings from 1909 to 1952 (London: Tate Gallery/HMSO, 1953), p. 10.
14Francis Bacon in ibid., p. 12.
15Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, 2014.
16Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
17Ibid.
18Stephen Spender, Journals, 1939–83 (London: Faber & Faber, 1985), p. 175.
19Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 9 March 2012.
20‘Magistrate Warns Motorist: You ought to see psychiatrist’, The Times, 10 January 1959, p. 4.
21Ibid.
22Ibid.
27: ‘BRILLIANT ONES FIZZLED’
1Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, letter to Diana, Lady Mosley, 12 August 1957, The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Fourth Estate, 2007), p. 297.
2Giles Brandreth, ‘The Duke of Devonshire’s A to Z of Englishness’, Daily Mail, c. 2003, reprinted 6 April 2018.
3Hilaire Belloc, ‘The Garden Party’, in Cautionary Verses (London: Duckworth, 1951), p. 131.
4Evelyn Waugh, letter to Nancy Mitford, 21 June 1960, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 545.
5Duke of Devonshire reported by LF.
6Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, letters to Nancy Mitford, 7 October 1960 and 21 July 1961, The Mitfords, pp. 343 and 355.
7June Keeley (Andrews), conversation with the author, 10 October 1997.
8Ibid.
9Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son (London: HarperCollins, 1997).
10Nick Garland, letter to the author, 17 March 2000.
11Ibid.
12Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, October 2012.
28: ‘ACTUALLY IT’S ALL I CAN DO’
1Don Henderson, letter to the author, 3 May 1992.
2Bruce Bernard, Introduction, Lucian Freud (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), p. 12.
3D. H. Lawrence, ‘Introduction to These Paintings’ (1929), in Selected Critical Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 248.
4Anon. (Michael Nelson), A Room in Chelsea Square (London: Jonathan Cape, 1958), p. 26.
5Ibid., p. 71.
6Ibid., p. 76.
29: ‘PEOPLE BEING MONOGAMOUS SEEMS TO ME AN EXTRAORDINARY AND IMAGINATIVE SITUATION’
1David Beaufort, conversation with the author, 7 November 2012.
2Quentin Crewe, Evening Standard, 17 March 1958.
3John Berger, ‘Success and Value’, New Statesman, 5 April 1958. This appeared three pages on from Paul Johnson on ‘Sex, Snobbery and Sadism’, a review of Ian Fleming’s Dr No: ‘without doubt the nastiest book I have ever read’.
4Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 29 March 1958, The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (London: Collins, 1985), p. 215.
5‘James Bond prefers Nature to Art’, Evening Standard, 1 April 1958.
6Lawrence Alloway, Listener, 10 April 1958.
7Anon (David Thompson), The Times, 26 March 1958.
8John Russell, Sunday Times, 30 March 1958.
9Neville Wallis, Observer, 30 March 1958.
10Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author, September 2012.
11Kenneth Clark, Listener, 22 February 1940.
12John Berger, New Statesman, 5 April 1958.
13John Berger, New Statesman, reprinted in his Permanent Red (London: Methuen, 1960), p. 43.
14June Keeley (Andrews), conversation with the author, July 1997.
15Jeffrey Bernard, ‘Low Life’, Spectator [timeless].
16Andrew Parker-Bowles, conversation with the author, 15 February 2012.
17Terry Miles, conversation with the author, 18 April 2008.
18Ann Fleming, letter to Evelyn Waugh, Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 219.
19Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979), p. 325.
20Kitty Garman, letter to LF, 6 February 1959, private collection.
21Alice Weldon, conversation with the author, 14 January 2014.
22Michael Andrews, conversation with the author, March 1986.
23David Wright, writing as James Mahon, ‘Official Art and the Modern Painter’, X, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1959, p. 30.
24Frank Auerbach, ‘Fragments from a Conversation’, X, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1959, p. 33.
25Ibid., p. 34.
26David Wright, writing as James Mahon, ‘The Painter in the Press’, X, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1960, p. 299.
27Sir Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting (London: Thames & Hudson, 1959), Preface.
28Herbert Read, ‘My Favourite Picture’, Books and Art, January 1958, p. 19.
29Duchess of Devonshire, letter to Paddy Leigh Fermor, 11 November 1959, In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: John Murray, 2008), p. 62.
30George Millar, Isabel and the Sea (London: William Heinemann, 1948), p. 379.
30: ‘HE WAS RATHER NICE AND REPULSIVE’
1Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–74, ed. Richard Buckle (London: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 324–5.
2Reggie Kray, A Way of Life (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000), p. 235.
3X, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1960.
4Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
5John Rothenstein, Time’s Thievish Progress (London: Cassell, 1970), p. 98.
6The Times, 26 May 1967.
31: ‘AWFULLY UNEASY’
1David Sylvester, ‘Michael Andrews: “Mysterious Conventionality”’, Sunday Times colour magazine, 13 January 1963.
2John Russell, Sunday Times, 10 June 1962.
3Douglas Cooper, The Work of Graham Sutherland (London: Lund Humphries, 1961), Introduction.
4Observer, 21 January 1962.
5Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
6Ibid.
7Ibid.
8Annabel Freud, conversation with the author, 14 February 2013.
9Ibid.
10Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
11Tim Behrens, letter to the author, 2002.
32: ‘THE ABSOLUTE CHEEK OF MAKING ART’
1David Sylvester, ‘Dark Sunlight’, Sunday Times magazine, 2 June 1963.
2Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations (1921) (London: Thames & Hudson, 1991), p. 163.
3Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
4Jimmy Stern, letter to LF, 2 October 1963, private collection.
5Eric Newton, Guardian, 7 October 1963.
6David Thompson, The Times, 5 October 1963.
7‘Peterborough’, Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1963.
8Photographs taken in April 1958.
9David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (London: Thames & Hudson, 1975), p. 21.
10Gasquet, Cézanne, p. 158.
11Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud (London: Thames & Hudson, 1982), p. 161.
12Lynda Morris, letter to the author, n.d. [c. 2000].
13Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Form (London: John Murray, 1957) p. 1.
14Kenneth Clark quoted in Herbert Read, ‘My Favourite Picture’, Books and Art, January 1958, p. 19.
15LF quoting Kenneth Clark.
16Edmond L. A. H. de Goncourt and Jules A. H. de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, ed. Robert Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 53 and 61.
17Walter Sickert, ‘The Naked and the Nude’, New Age, 21 July 1910, p. 277.
33: ‘I CAN’T BE PRESSED REALLY’
1John Russell in Bryan Robertson, John Russell and Lord Snowdon, Private View (London: Thomas Nelson, 1965), p. 113.
2Ibid.
3Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
4Ibid.
5Jane McAdam Freud, letter to the author, 22 November 2000.
6Paul McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 4 December 2000.
7Ibid.
8Jane McAdam Freud, conversation with the author, 7 November 2000.
9Jane McAdam Freud, letter to the author, 22 November 2000.
10Anne Dunn, letter to the author, 7 January 2012.
11Francis Bacon: Interviews with David Sylvester, film directed by Michael Gill, BBC, May 1966.
12The painting was destroyed in a fire.
13Charles Baudelaire, ‘The Salon of 1846’, The Mirror of Art (London: Phaidon Press, 1955), p. 89.
14Ibid., p. 70.
15John Russell, Lucian Freud (London: Arts Council, 1974), p. 23.
16Brian Sayers, letter to the author, February 2012.
34: ‘IF WORK PERMITS’
1Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
2Mark O’Connor, conversation with the author, May 2013.
3Esther Freud, conversation with the author, 26 February 2016.
4Ibid.
5Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
6Esther Freud, conversation with the author, 26 February 2016.
7Cedric Morris, Studio, May 1942, pp. 121–30.
8Edmond L. A. H. de Goncourt and Jules A. H. de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, ed. Robert Baldick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 22 May 1865, p. 106.
9David Somerset, conversation with the author, 7 November 2012.
10Paul Overy, Listener, 2 May 1968.
11Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
12De Goncourt and de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, 23 May 1871, p. 189.
13Alice Weldon, conversations with the author, 14 January and 15 June 2014.
14Anne Dunn, conversation with the author.
15Anne Dunn, letter to the author, January 2013.
16Frank Auerbach, conversation with the author.
17Ibid.
18Annie Freud, conversation with the author, 29 May 2012.
19De Goncourt and de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, 21 May 1857, p. 27.