Lucian Freud: A Life

Lucian Freud painted the human body for sixty years — nude after nude, study after study, the accumulation of observed flesh that constitutes one of the most sustained and most honest engagements with the physical reality of being human in the history of painting. William Feaver, who knew Freud personally for the last three decades of his life and had unprecedented access to both the artist and his archive, has written the definitive biography: two volumes of extraordinary richness that trace the complete life — the childhood in Berlin, the exile in London, the long career, the multiple families, the gambling, the horses, and the work that will outlast all of it.

The essential Freud biography — an indispensable reference for anyone serious about the most important British painter of the twentieth century. Published by Phaidon.