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Breakfast with Lucian
Authored by Geordie Greig
Narrated by John Standing

0:00 Intro
0:03 Epigraph
1:01 Preface
2:32 1. Breakfast
10:15 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke’s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud’s private salon.

In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud’s stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney; sleeping with horses; escaping the Krays; painting the Queen; his controversial role as a father; and why Velázquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies and his love of gambling. Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked.

Those closest to him, after decades of silence and secrecy, have spoken frankly about what life was like living, loving or sitting for the greatest figurative portraitist of the twentieth century. Partly based on hours of taped conversations with the artist and his circle, and drawing on interviews with those who knew Freud intimately – including many girlfriends, models, dealers and bookmakers – Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait of the artist as a young and old man. It is a uniquely fascinating, personal and authoritative account of one of the greatest British painters of this century and the last, and a profile of a man who makes everyone else's life seem less lived.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Geordie Greig is the Editor of the Mail on Sunday. He was previously the Editor of the London Evening Standard and Editor of Tatler. He lives in London and is married to a Texan with whom he has three children. His last book was The Kingmaker, the story of his grandfather's friendship with King George VI.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: RH AudioGo
Published on: October 3, 2013
ISBN: 9781473500815
Duration: 8 hr, 41 min
Genres: Art / History / Contemporary (1945-), Art / Individual Artists / Monographs, Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs