The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH Modern and contemporary fiction An unambitious painter named Gu

An unambitious painter named Gu (Shih Jun) lives with his mother in the vicinity of an abandoned mansion rumoured to be haunted

These stories take us from the underworld of Babel’s native Odessa

featuring interviews with Polanski

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH Modern and contemporary fiction An unambitious painter named GuThough ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words. In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud's early Sigmund Freud's grandson, born into a middle class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany