Description: Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's extraordinary illustrated letters (accompanied by insightful commentary) offer an intimate glimpse of the artist's personality and creative practice.
Brief description: Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. He is the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable, and Michelangelo. His books include My Heart Is This: Tracey Emin on Painting, How Painting Happens (and why it matters), Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait with Lucian Freud, Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney, and the London Painters, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (with David Hockney), Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 (with David Dawson), and Venice: City of Pictures.
Review Quotes: An inviting portrait of the artist as a young man through facsimiles of his handwritten, often lavishly embellished personal correspondence... Richly illustrated.-- "NPR"