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Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud – Rosie Boyt
Rosie Boyt is one of Lucian Freud’s daughters. It is fair to say that she, probably along with the rest of his issue, had a complicated relationship with her father.
The book opens with a startling first line . . . ‘Nothing had been discussed, I just assumed that I would be naked.’
Rosie sat for a painting that her father did in 1977-8. The book is in part made up of Rosie’s recently unearthed diary entries, a journal that she kept from 1989 and which covers another sitting that she did for her father, this time clothed.
Enthralled by his genius at the time it is only after his death that she began to question the version of events that she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman but also for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.
Hardback. 398 pages
Measurements:
15.8cm x 24cm x 3.5cm