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Phoebe Hoban, writer of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now converts her focus on Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Start is the first biography to determine Freud's work and life, demonstrating how the two converge. In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled along with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he blended with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gaming and womanizing with fierce energy. He coated his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He committed twice, had an uncountable variety of children, and retained working through it all, painting everyone from good friend and competitor Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes put in years about the same painting, that could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his content, his purpose was always the same: To uncover and reveal the type hidden within through his intense visible imagination. Along with its startling biographical revelations, the fantastic enjoyment of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Start is the way Hoban deconstructs the art work itself - its affects, models, and technique - showing how Freud reproduced certainty on the canvas while wearing down the illusion that whatever we see is real.
