Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was the most important British figurative painter of the twentieth century and one of the most private men in public life. His letters — gathered in this Thames & Hudson volume under the title he chose, Love Lucian — offer the most direct access to his inner life that he ever permitted: correspondence with friends, lovers, children, fellow artists, and the occasional bewildered stranger, spanning decades of a life lived at the extreme of emotional and artistic intensity.

The letters reveal a man of extraordinary intelligence, occasional cruelty, genuine warmth, and complete commitment to the work — a man for whom everything, including love, was finally in the service of the paintings. They are also, quite often, very funny.

An essential document of artistic life in the twentieth century — and the most intimate portrait available of one of the great painters of his age. Published by Thames & Hudson.