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  I’m extremely grateful to the Lucian Freud Archive for permission to use images of his paintings, all kindly provided by The Bridgeman Art Library.

  Excerpts from Laurie Lee’s diaries reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Laurie Lee. Copyright © Laurie Lee 2013.

  The quatrain “Don’t Ian, if Annie should cook you” is an extract from Don’ts for my darlings by Noël Coward © NC Aventales AG reproduced by permission of Alan Brodie Representation Ltd www.alanbrodie.com

  The extract from ‘The Gyres’ reproduced by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems, revised by W. B. Yeats, edited by J. Finnereran. Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats, renewed 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michel Butler Yeats. All Rights Reserved.

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  Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.

  Abramovich, Roman 17, 211

  abstraction 10, 19, 30–31

  Acquavella, William 34, 192, 203–4, 208–211

  Aitchison, Craigie 158

  Ancaster, James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of 154

  Ancaster, Nancy, Countess of 154

  Andreas-Salomé, Lou 41–2

  Andrews, Michael 24, 136

  Annabel’s (nightclub) 159, 166

  Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London 21, 22, 204, 206, 209, 212–13

  anti-Semitism 15, 42, 44–6, 51, 88, 111, 116

  Antilles (nightclub) 92, 93

  Ascott, Buckinghamshire 12, 237

  Ashton, Sir Frederick 107

  Aspinall, John 197

  Astor, Judy 72

  Astor, Michael 72–3, 74

  Astor, Nancy, Viscountess 154

  Auden, W. H. 71, 127, 228

  Auerbach, Frank 37; friendship with Lucian 3, 24, 36–8, 127, 136, 237; paintings owned by Lucian 4, 131, 229; views on Lucian’s work 25, 37–8, 135, 143; Lucian’s portrait of 36; family background and early life 38, 88; and Sheila Fell 120; and Lucian’s working method 142–3

  Aung San Suu Kyi 2

  Bacon, Francis: Lucian paints 12, 28–30, 29, 128; friendship with Lucian 14, 30, 31, 50, 92, 99, 113, 118, 136, 194; relationship with George Dyer 24; appearance and character 28, 48, 122; paints Lucian 28, 113; views on Lucian 28, 30; influence on Lucian 30, 31, 113; reputation 30, 31, 205; views on abstraction 30–31; family background 48; and Anne Dunn 96, 102; on Lucian’s sexuality 97; and Michael Wishart 98; and Vassilakis Takis 119, 120; death 210; Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 118; Two Figures 17, 150, 197, 230

  Badminton House, Gloucestershire 169

  Baghdad 87

  Baltrover, SS 10, 14, 67–9

  Balzac, Honoré de, Naked Balzac with Folded Arms (Rodin) 131, 229

  Baselitz, Georg 204

  Bearn, Emily 156–8

  Bearn, Joseph 157

  Beaton, Sir Cecil 67, 105

  Beaufort, David Somerset, 11th Duke of 14, 69, 102, 169, 205, 206, 208, 213, 214

  Beckett, Samuel 167; Breath 133

  Behrens, Kate 135

  Behrens, Tim 30, 102, 135–7, 153

  Bellingham-Smith, Elinor 101

  Benton End, Suffolk 66, 70, 74

  Bérard, Christian 128

  Berlin: under Nazis 10, 44–6; Lucian’s childhood in 41, 42, 43–4

  Bernard, Bruce 16, 97, 169, 220

  Beston, Valerie 28

  Betjeman, Sir John 34

  Biddick Hall, County Durham 181

  Binsted, Sussex 86, 95

  biographies, proposed, of Lucian xi

  birds of prey, Lucian’s pets 147

  Birley, India Jane 102

  Birley, Mark 102

  Blackwood, Lady Caroline (Lucian’s second wife): marriage to Lucian 95, 103, 105–115, 106, 116–17, 154; appearance and character 103, 108–9, 110–111, 111–12, 122–3; end of relationship with Lucian 103, 109–110, 115–16, 117–18; family background 103, 108, 139; Lucian’s portraits of 103–4, 104, 108, 109, 114, 118, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 131, 135, 237; children 116, 120–21, 122, 123; later life 120–25; death 125; Lucian’s love letters to 148, 150; on Lucian’s Leigh Bowery portraits 206; Great Granny Webster 122; ‘Portraits by Freud’ 124

  Blackwood, Lady Perdita 111

  Blair, Tony 191

  Blake, William 138

  Blondie (band) 161–2

  Bonaparte, Princess Marie 47

  Bowery, Leigh 2, 17, 206–7; Lucian’s portraits of 2, 17, 140, 206–8, 209, 210, 211

  Boxer, Lady Arabella 102

  Boyt, Alexander ‘Ali’ (Lucian’s son) 143, 175, 184, 187, 223, 224

  Boyt, Isobel (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 217

  Boyt, Kai 187

  Boyt, Rose (Lucian’s daughter) 162, 175, 220, 231, 234, 235–6; photographs Lucian 22, 23; Lucian paints 219, 222–3

  Boyt, Susie (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 219

  Boyt, Suzy: family background and early life 135, 222; relationship with Lucian 135, 136, 175, 222; children 175, 217, 222–4; Lucian paints 183, 187, 230

  Brecht, Bertolt 39

  British Council 205

  Brown, Craig 202–3

  Brown, Gordon 6, 191

  Brown, Morrow 94, 97

  Brown, Verity 142, 143

  Browning, Robert, ‘My Last Duchess’ 109

  Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder 42

  Bryanston School 51, 53–4, 69, 70, 71

  Buñuel, Luis, Un Chien Andalou 111

  Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus 202

  Byron, George, 6th Baron 159

  Café Royal, Regent Street 47, 69, 93

  Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of 2

  Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of 2

  Campbell, Anna 79

  Campbell, Mary (née Garman) 79

  Campbell, Roy 79

  Capel Curig 70

  Carr, David 67, 82

  Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland 46; The Hunting of the Snark 39

  Cash, Johnny 162, 166

  Cashel Bay, Connemara 94

  Cavafy, Constantine 47

  Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 54, 90

  Cézanne, Paul 203; L’Après-midi à Naples 144

  Chancellor, Alexander 156, 158

  Chancellor, Susanna (née Debenham) 135, 136, 153, 155–6, 158, 235, 237; Lucian’s portraits of 155, 156, 157

  Chandler, Victor 15, 67, 133, 134–5, 198–200, 208, 225

  Channon, John 229

  Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, The Young Schoolmistress 7

  Charles I, King 14

  Charles, Prince of Wales 202

  Charles, Ray 162

  Chicago Institute of Art 210

  Chien Andalou, Un (film) 111

  Citkowitz, Evgenia 116, 123

  Citkowitz, Israel 121

  Citkowitz, Natalya 121, 122, 123

  Clarendon Crescent, Paddington 176

  Clarke, Sally 1, 2, 4, 234

  Clarke’s restaurant, Kensington 1–2, 5, 238

  Clash (band) 27

  Cock Tavern, Smithfield 36, 37

  Coffin, Clifford, photographs Lucian 62, 68, 147

  Coldstream, Sir William 228

  Cole, Nat King, ‘There’s Gotta Be Some Changes Made’ 6

  Colony Room (club) 28, 30, 96, 224

  Communist Party of Great Britain 81

  concentration camps 44, 46

  conceptual art 10

  Connolly, Cressida, The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans 79

  Connolly, Cyril 71, 95, 96, 218, 237; relations with Lucian 55, 63, 91, 92, 111, 228

  Cook, Angus 140, 142, 165

  Cooper, Lady Diana 105

  Cooper, Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich 111

  Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of 12

  Coronation (19
53) 118, 155

  Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, L’Italienne, ou La Femme à la Manche Jaune 230

  Cottbus 43

  Courbet, Gustave, Le Sommeil 102

  Coverley, Bernardine 175, 197, 217, 219–22; Garden of the Jaguar 222

  Coward, Sir Noël 6, 105

  Cranach, Lucas 120

  Craxton, John 50, 67, 82, 87

  Crewe, Quentin 92

  Crivelli, Carlo 179

  Cuckoo Club 14

  Cuthbertson, Penny 139

  Dachau concentration camp 44

  Daily Mail 4, 11, 172

  Daily Mirror 13

  Dalí, Salvador, Un Chien Andalou 111

  Dane Court preparatory school 54

  Dane, Thomas 102

  Dartington Hall school 49, 53, 121, 123

  Davies, Kevin 37

  Dawson, David xii, 5; as assistant to Lucian 1, 2–4, 18, 59, 128, 132, 228–34, 237; as artist 4; poses for Lucian 10, 144, 148, 157, 203, 227, 228, 231–3, 232; photographs Lucian 134, 170, 190, 202, 233; Talbot Road 4

  Daylesford House, Gloucestershire 163

  de la Mare, Walter 6; Memoirs of a Midget 98

  de Stempel, Baron Michael 162

  de Stempel, Sophie 161–8, 234–5, 236; Lucian’s portraits of 166–8, 167

  Deakin, John, photographs Lucian 83, 136

  Dean Street, Soho 148

  Debenham, Angela, Lady (née Paget) 156

  Debenham, Martin 155

  Debenham, Sir Piers 156

  Debenham, Susanna see Chancellor, Susanna

  Dedham, Suffolk 54, 64, 65–6

  Degas, Edgar 7

  Delamere Terrace, Paddington 9, 51, 57, 58, 83, 110, 148, 182

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of 14, 24, 95, 96, 204

  Devonshire, Deborah ‘Debo’, Duchess of 95–6, 139, 204

  Diamond, Harry 133

  Dietrich, Marlene 16, 67, 224

  digital art 4, 6, 6, 191

  Dix, Otto 79

  d’Offay, Anthony 66, 142, 153, 154, 204–5, 206, 209, 211

  Doherty, Pat 192–4, 193, 231

  Douglas, Lord Alfred 87

  Douglas, Norman 8

  Drumnadrochit 75

  Dublin 94–5

  Dudley Ward, Freda 180

  Dufferin, Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 103

  Dufferin, Belinda ‘Lindy’, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava 191

  Dufferin, Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava 97, 103, 108, 109, 110, 115–16, 117, 122

  Dufferin, Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 111, 122, 125, 191

  Dunn, Anne 97; affair with Lucian 92–9, 100–101, 102; marriage to Michael Wishart 92, 96–8; Lucian’s portraits of 94, 99, 237; raped 94; as artist 95, 101; pregnancies and children 95, 98–9, 102; marriage to Rodrigo Moynihan 99

  Dunn, Douglas 39

  Dunn, Irene, Lady 93–4, 95, 97

  Dunn, Sir James 92

  Dürer, Albrecht 42

  Dyer, George 24, 28

  Dylan, Bob 159

  East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing 54–5, 64, 67, 70, 74; fire 66, 82

  Edwards, Henrietta 142, 157

  Edwards, John 28

  Egg, Augustus 31

  Eli (whippet) 10, 11, 147, 227

  Eliot, Francis ‘Freddy’ (Lucian’s son) 12, 99, 144, 157, 219, 236

  Eliot, Jacquetta, Countess of St Germans: Lucian’s portraits of 23, 145–6, 146; relationship with Lucian 57, 99–100, 139, 197, 220; appearance and character 99, 100; children 99, 220; family background 100; marriage to Earl of St Germans 100; photographs Lucian 133; and Lucian’s death 236

  Eliot, Jago, Lord Eliot 220

  Eliot, T. S. 6, 77; The Family Reunion 53

  Elizabeth II, Queen 148, 227; Lucian’s portrait of 14, 48, 94, 142, 157, 234; Coronation 118, 155

  Emin, Tracey 4, 211

  Encounter (magazine) 127–8

  Epstein, Sir Jacob 8–9, 79, 89, 177

  Epstein, Kathleen, Lady (née Garman) 79, 89

  Epstein, Margaret 89

  Everett, James (Lucian’s grandson) 218

  Everett, Peter (Lucian’s grandson) 218

  expressionism 10, 204

  Fell, Sheila 120

  Fellowes, Robert, Baron 94

  Ferry, Bryan 2

  Festival of Britain (1951) 98

  Fisch, Mark 48–9, 63, 135, 229

  Flaubert, Gustave 7, 39, 161, 172

  Fleming, Ann (earlier Viscountess Rothermere) 91, 105, 107, 111, 156, 163

  Fleming, Ian 6, 105; Casino Royale 105

  Formby, George 7

  Forster, E. M. 47

  Fraser, Lady Antonia 236

  Freud, Ann (Lucian’s sister-in-law) 43, 50

  Freud, Anna (Lucian’s aunt) 8

  Freud, Annabel (Lucian’s daughter) 178, 179, 181, 184, 185, 217, 224, 235; Lucian paints 218–19

  Freud, Annie (Lucian’s daughter): recollections of Lucian 39, 52, 57, 179, 181, 182–4; birth and childhood 92, 178–82, 215, 217, 224; relations with Lucian 133, 176, 178, 182, 183–7, 211–12, 235; Lucian paints 174, 175–8, 184–5, 219; poetry 182, 185, 187; adult life and motherhood 184–7, 211–12

  Freud, Anton Walter (Lucian’s cousin) 46

  Freud, Bella (Lucian’s daughter) 16, 34, 123, 133, 137, 162, 169, 175, 186, 217, 219–20, 221, 223; Lucian paints 165, 183, 187, 219, 220

  Freud, Sir Clement (Lucian’s brother) 32; childhood and schooling 42, 43, 43, 45, 46, 49, 51, 53; relations with Lucian 48–51

  Freud, Dorothy (Lucian’s niece) 236

  Freud, Ernst (Lucian’s father): family background 41; career as architect 41, 42, 51–2, 154; thwarted artist 42, 59–60; relations with Lucian 42, 52, 55, 60, 61; flees Germany for England 10, 46; life in England 51–2, 73, 115; and Lucian’s schooling 53, 54–5; ill-health 58; death 23, 55, 57

  Freud, Esther (Lucian’s daughter) 169, 175, 186, 219–20; Hideous Kinky 219–20; The Sea House 82

  Freud, Jean-Martin (Lucian’s uncle) 46

  Freud, Lucian: birth 10, 41; naming 41–2; childhood 10, 12, 41–6; family flees Germany for England 10, 12, 46, 47–8, 61; schooling 49, 51, 53–4, 70, 71; early paintings 52–3, 58, 64–5; art school 43, 48, 54–5, 63, 66, 70, 74–5; relationship with Felicity Hellaby 64–7, 69; relationship with Bettina Shaw-Lawrence 69–70, 74–5; merchant seaman 10, 14, 67–9, 194; relationship with Lorna Wishart 67, 77–8, 82–8, 93, 97; marriage to Kitty Garman 89, 92, 96, 147, 181; affair with Anne Dunn 92–9, 100–101, 102; marriage to Lady Caroline Blackwood 95, 103, 105–115, 116–17, 154; end of relationship with Caroline 103, 109–110, 115–16, 117–18; relationship with Suzy Boyt 135, 136, 175, 217; relationship with Katherine McAdam 175, 217–18; relationship with Bernardine Coverley 175, 197, 217, 219–22; relationship with Jacquetta Eliot 57, 99–100, 139, 197, 220; father’s death 23, 42, 57; relationship with Harriet Vyner 158–60, 161–2; relationship with Celia Paul 140–42, 160–61; relationship with Sophie de Stempel 161–8; mother’s death 42; relationship with Emily Bearn 156–8; relationship with Alexi Williams-Wynn 169–73; last days 28, 173, 228–31, 234–6; death 41, 224, 231; funeral 224, 236, 237; memorial service 163, 223; will 216, 234

  Character & characteristics: accent and speaking voice 4, 32, 33, 55, 184, 191; ambition 61, 63, 131; appearance 2, 11, 32, 47; atheism 41; attitude to social class 12, 14, 48; bathing and cleanliness 133, 142; charisma 11, 13, 19, 61, 64, 225; clothes 1, 22, 24, 34, 54, 69, 133, 150, 154; compartmentalisation 164–5, 192; contrariness 16–17; conversation 6–8, 16, 190; cruelty 71–2, 99, 118, 124, 225; dancing 92; driving and cars 24, 38, 166; feuds 50–51, 84; fighting 14–15, 54, 70, 84, 148; food and dining 4, 12, 13–14, 15, 133, 199, 215; frankness 12, 112; gambling 24, 49, 133, 136, 143, 195–201, 214; generosity 17, 172, 196–7; handwriting 3; health 3, 133, 173, 182, 229; honours 6, 18, 227; horse-riding 42, 43, 86, 147, 201; literary tastes 6, 8, 38–40, 172; litigiousness 150–51, 217; love of animals 43, 4
7, 53, 147, 156; money and finances 3, 9, 17, 24, 49, 136, 195–201, 209, 213–14; musical tastes 159, 161–2, 166; obstinacy 33; playfulness 2, 16; politics 34; privacy 9, 16, 17, 23, 32, 33–4, 58, 60–61, 64, 67, 88, 148, 151, 168; punctuality 4, 127, 137, 203; selfishness 18, 61, 87–8, 109; sexuality and libido 2, 11, 27, 58–9, 63–4, 87, 92, 97, 139, 200; shopping 182; superstitions 41, 79, 199; working methods and schedule 2, 30, 52–3, 60, 63, 112–13, 127, 129–35, 141–3, 163–4, 189–91

  Works: After Breakfast 156; After Cézanne 144–5; And the Bridegroom 236; Benefits Supervisor Sleeping 16, 17, 211, 215–16; The Big Man 209, 212–13; Blond Girl, Night Portrait 161, 166; The Brigadier 201–3; Daughter and Father 157; David Hockney 188, 189–92; Dead Heron 85; Donegal Man 192–4, 193; Donegal Man, Profile 194; Double Portrait 141–2, 156, 157; Figure with Bare Arms 179; Francis Bacon 28–30, 29; Girl in Bed 103, 104, 109, 120, 121, 122; Girl in a Blanket 118; Girl in a Dark Jacket 90; Girl with a Fig Leaf 90; Girl with a Kitten 90, 91, 147; Girl on the Quay 64–5, 65; Girl with Roses 90; Girl in a Striped Night-Shirt 141; Girl with a White Dog 90–91, 93; Grey Gelding 147; Guy and Speck 147, 165; Head of the Big Man 213; Hotel Bedroom 103–4, 108, 109, 114, 118, 120, 125; I Miss You 49; Interior Scene 94; Large Interior, W9 23, 145–6, 146; Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau) 183, 186–7, 222; Loch Ness Drumnadrochit 75; Lying by the Rags 166–8, 167; Man with a Blue Scarf 129; Naked Child Laughing 174, 175–8; Naked Girl 139; Naked Girl with Egg 141; Naked Man with His Friend 27; Naked Man with Rat 20, 21–2, 23–4, 25–7; Naked Portrait 211; Naked Solicitor 150; Nude with Leg Up 210; Painter and Model 140, 141, 141, 142; The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer 169–70, 171; The Painter’s Mother Resting I and II 55–7, 56; The Painter’s Room 85; Portrait of the Hound 10, 134, 227, 231–3, 232; Quince on a Blue Table 85; Red Haired Man on a Chair 102; Rose 222–3; Self-Portrait with a Black Eye 130; Skewbald Mare 147; Sleeping Head 159; Standing by the Rags 166; Sunny Morning – Eight Legs 144; Three-legged Horse (sculpture) 43; Two Plants 161; Waste Ground with Houses, Paddington 57; Woman with a Daffodil 77–9, 78; Woman in a Fur Coat 152, 154; Woman with a Tulip 77–9, 80, 82