Breakfast with Lucian Audiobook (Free)

For a decade Geordie Greig was among an extremely small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast time at Clarke’s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. More than tea as well as the morning documents, Freud would recount stories of his past and talk about art. It was, in effect, Freud’s personal salon.

In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud’s stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his sibling Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney; sleeping about Breakfast with Lucian with horses; escaping the Krays; painting the Queen; his controversial role being a father; and just why Velázquez was the greatest painter. It really is revelatory about his artwork, his fans, his kids, his enemies and his love of playing. Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked.

Those closest to him, after decades of silence and secrecy, have spoken frankly in what life was like living, caring or sitting for the best figurative portraitist of the twentieth century. Partially predicated on hours of taped conversations with the designer and his circle, and drawing on interviews with those who understood Freud intimately – including many girlfriends, versions, dealers and bookmakers – Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait from the designer as a and old man. It really is a exclusively fascinating, personal and authoritative accounts of 1 of the greatest British painters of the century as well as the last, and a profile of a guy who makes everyone else’s existence seem less resided.