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If he doesn't think we need to know who his sitters are, or how they relate to him or each other beyond the fact that they are the dramatis personae of his life and that he cannot make a painting that 'lives' out of someone he doesn't know, perhaps he is right and it is ignoble to want to know more. 'The painting itself' he says, 'should be, ultimately, all there is to say.' It's difficult to disagree with that without branding yourself a philistine -- but [LUCIAN...
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Champagne On Dirty Floorboards
LUCIAN FREUD by William Feaver Rizzoli, £65, pp. 487, ISBN9780847829521
Lucian Freud describes his paintings as largely autobiographical, which seems to imply some sort of readiness to expose his private life to the public gaze; but he does so on his own terms and is notoriously reluctant to let ...See the full content of this document
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