Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954

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.

Since his death in 2011, Lucian Freud’s reputation as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century has continued to grow with his inimitable large-scale paintings of human figures hanging in museums worldwide and reaching dizzying prices at auction. Art historians note his talent, brilliance, ...