Breakfast with Lucian Read online

  Writings: ‘Some Thoughts on Painting’ (1954) 127, 128–9; Tatler article (2004) 127, 129

  Freud, Lucie (née Brasch; Lucian’s mother): family background 41, 59; marriage and child-rearing 41, 43, 59; relations with Lucian 41, 42, 43, 55–8, 59–60, 61, 88, 218; life in Nazi Germany 44, 46; flees Germany for England 10, 46, 61; life in England 52, 58; and Lucian’s schooling 53, 54; widowhood 23, 55; depression and attempted suicide 23, 55–7; death 42; will 42; Lucian’s portraits of 21–2, 23, 55–8, 56, 145–6, 146

  Freud, May (Lucian’s granddaughter) 186, 187

  Freud, Sigmund (Lucian’s grandfather) 2, 27, 41, 59–60; Lucian’s recollections of 8, 46; legacy and royalties 9, 197; friendship with Lou Andreas-Salomé 42; life in England 46; Lucian’s relations with 46–8; friendship with Marie Bonaparte 47; as zoologist 47

  Freud, Stephen (Lucian’s brother): childhood and schooling 42, 43, 43, 45, 46, 49, 52, 53; marriages and children 43, 236; relations with Lucian 48–51; Lucian’s portrait of 50

  Galway 94

  Garbo, Greta 6, 67

  Gargoyle Club 86, 93, 96

  Garman family 79–82

  Garman, Douglas 79, 81

  Garman, Helen 79, 81, 92

  Garman, Kathleen (later Lady Epstein) 79, 89

  Garman, Kathleen ‘Kitty’ (Lucian’s first wife): family background and early life 89–90; marriage to Lucian 89, 92, 96, 147, 181; appearance and character 90, 179; Lucian’s portraits of 90–91, 91, 93, 109, 145, 147; affair with Laurie Lee 92; children 92, 176–7, 178, 179, 181, 182, 185; affair with Henry Green 96; at Anne Dunn’s wedding to Michael Wishart 97; and Lucian’s nude portrait of daughter 176–7; marriage to Wynne Godley 178–9, 181

  Garman, Lorna see Wishart, Lorna

  Garman, Marjorie 82

  Garman, Mary 79

  Garman, Ruth 90

  Garman, Sebastian 81

  Garman, Sylvia 79

  Garman, Walter 81–2

  Gascoigne, Caroline 32

  Gayford, Martin 16, 129

  George, Prince of Greece 47

  Gilbert and George 19, 211

  Gilmour, David 236

  Glenconner, Lady Anne 116, 118

  Glenconner, Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron 118, 204–5

  Glendinning, Victoria 122

  Godley, Eve 179

  Godley, Wynne 178–9, 181

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 6

  Goldeneye, Jamaica 105

  Goldsmith, Sir James 12

  Gollancz, Diane 64

  Goodman, Arnold, Baron 150, 208

  Goodman, Francis, photographs 76, 85

  Gormley, Antony 229

  Gormley, Michael 229

  Gourmont, Remy de, The Natural Philosophy of Love 172

  Gowrie, Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of 121, 125

  Grange, Peter 201

  Gray, Simon 236

  Green, Henry 96

  Greig, Sir Henry Louis Carron v

  Greig, Jasper 4, 6, 6, 7, 228, 230–31

  Greig, Kathryn 237

  Greig, Louis 32

  Greig, Monica 4, 7

  Greig, Octavia 4, 7

  Grove, Valerie 84

  Guinness, Desmond 139

  Gunwalloe, Cornwall 81

  Gurland, Marilyn 150

  Hall, Jerry 12, 34, 203–4

  Hampstead, Sigmund Freud’s house 46, 73

  Hanbury, Marina 102

  Hanover Gallery, London 209

  Hardy, Thomas, ‘The Turnip-Hoer’ 40

  Harrison, Tony 38

  Harrod, Tanya 101

  Haslam, Nicky 97

  Hastings, Dorothy 197

  Hastings, Jane 197

  Hayward Gallery, London 31

  Hellaby, Felicity 64–7, 66, 69; Lucian’s portraits of 64–5, 65, 66

  Hellaby, Richard 65

  Hellaby, Ruth 65

  Hicks, Zoe 100

  Hiddensee 46

  Hideous Kinky (film) 220

  Hill, Derek 202

  Hirshhorn Museum, Washington 210

  Hirst, Damien 211

  Hitler, Adolf 44

  Hitler Youth 44

  Hockney, David 28, 30–31, 157, 192, 233; Lucian paints 188, 189–92

  Hokusai 42

  Holland Park, Lucian’s flat/studio 4, 9, 11, 25, 34, 35, 132

  Holocaust 10, 88, 218

  Horizon (magazine) 71, 73, 228

  Hornby, Sir Simon 108

  horses and horse-racing 43, 53, 147, 197–201

  Hughes, Helena 94–5

  Hughes, Robert 19, 30

  Hughes, Ted 23

  Hurlstone, Robin 148, 150

  Hyndman, Tony 71, 73

  illegitimacy, accusation of Lucian’s 48–9

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 77, 131, 190

  Iraq 86–7

  Islington: Liverpool Road 135, 136; Job Centre 210–211

  Jackson, Derek 95

  Jackson, Rose 95, 101

  Jagger, Gabriel 203

  Jagger, Sir Mick 203–4

  Jamaica 105

  James, Henry 39, 161

  John, Augustus 100

  Jones, Raymond 23–7, 28

  Jopling, Jay 211–12

  Joshua (whippet) 156

  Kasmin, John 191, 192

  Kensington Church Street: Lucian’s house/studio 3, 9, 17, 35, 126, 131–3, 190, 200, 228–9, 230; Kitty and Wynne Godley’s house 179

  Kent, Prince George, Duke of 47

  Kentish, David 69–70, 74

  Kilbracken, Arthur Godley, 1st Baron 178

  kinetic art 118, 205

  King, Jeremy 14, 15–16, 148, 234, 236–7

  Kipling, Rudyard 6; Kim 39

  Kirkman, James 3, 205–8, 209

  Kneen, Liz 101

  Knightley, Keira 12

  Knox, E. V., ‘The Everlasting Percy’ 39

  Koons, Jeff 210

  Kravis, Henry 210

  Kray twins 195–6, 213

  Ladbrokes (betting company) 200–201

  Lambton, Lady Anne 181

  Lambton, Lady Beatrix 181

  Lambton, Belinda ‘Bindy’, Viscountess 19, 102, 179–81, 180

  Lambton, Edward ‘Ned’, 7th Earl of Durham 102

  Lambton, Lady Isabella 181

  Lambton, Lady Lucinda 19, 191, 217, 224–5

  Lambton, Lady Rose 181

  Lancaster, Cara 108

  Langdon, Sister Mary-Joy 147, 237

  Lawrence, T. E. 79

  Lear, Edward 39

  Lebedev, Evgeny 24

  Lee, Laurie 83–4, 87, 92, 228; The Sun My Monument 84

  Lefevre Gallery, London 85, 209

  Léger, Fernand 69

  Lett-Haines, Arthur 54, 66, 70

  Lewis, Joe 210

  Liddell, Louise 11

  Litvin, Natasha see Spender, Natasha, Lady

  Liverpool Road, Islington 135, 136

  London Gallery 209

  Longman, Janey 102, 135, 164

  Lowell, Ivana 120–21, 124–5; Why Not Say What Happened? 121

  Lowell, Robert 108, 121

  Lowry, L. S. 120

  Lumley, Charlie 118, 237

  McAdam, Katherine 175, 217–18

  McAdam Freud, David (Lucian’s son) 175, 218, 235

  McAdam Freud, Jane (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 218, 219, 235

  McAdam Freud, Lucy (Lucian’s daughter) 175, 217, 218, 235

  McAdam Freud, Paul (Lucian’s son) 175, 218, 235

  McCartney, Stella 34

  McDonagh, Deirdre 95

  MacDonald, Nigel 75

  McEwen, Katie 26, 160

  MacGregor, Neil 55, 133

  McLean, Alfie 209, 212–13

  Madrid 115

  Magritte, René 85

  Maida Vale 52, 92

  Man Ray 140

  Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, Sigmund Freud’s house 46, 73

  Margaret, Princess 105, 148

  Marlborough Fine Art, London 28, 205, 206, 209

  Masefield, John, ‘The Everlast
ing Mercy’ 39

  Meara, Tim 233

  Menzel, Adolph 161

  merchant navy 10, 14, 67–9, 194

  Meredith, Michael 21, 22

  Minton, John 128

  Mitford, Deborah see Devonshire, Deborah ‘Debo’, Duchess of

  Mitford, Diana 135, 139

  Mitford, Nancy 111

  Mitford, Pamela 95

  Miyake, Issey 1

  Moffat, Ivan 121

  Montague, Anne 136

  Moore, Henry 205

  Moraes, Henrietta 100, 118

  Morandi, Giorgio 190

  Morgan, Ffion 156

  Morris, Sir Cedric 48, 54–5, 66, 70

  Moss, Kate 6, 137–8, 148, 157, 190, 233

  Mosse family 44, 46

  Moynihan, John 101

  Moynihan, Rodrigo 99, 101

  Much Too Shy (film), Lucian as extra 7

  Museum of Modern Art, New York 31, 205, 210

  Museum of Western Australia 211

  Muybridge, Eadweard 17

  National Gallery, London 55, 200

  National Portrait Gallery, London 50, 202, 233, 237–8; Lucian’s memorial service 163, 224

  Nazism 10, 42, 44–6, 88

  Nemon, Oscar 42

  Neue Sachlichkeit 79

  News of the World (newspaper) 95

  Nicholson, Elsie 75

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 42; Thus Spake Zarathustra 223

  Noailles, Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de 111–12

  Notting Hill, Lucian’s house/studio 3, 9, 17, 35, 126, 131–3, 200, 228–9, 230 nudes, Lucian’s 10, 25–6, 31–2, 139–40, 143–4, 176–7

  Nureyev, Rudolph 119

  Oakeswell Hall, Staffordshire 81–2

  Obst, Bryan 71

  Order of Merit 6, 18, 227

  Organ, Bryan 202

  Orwell, George 228

  Orwell, Sonia 228

  Paddington 8, 12, 237; Lucian’s lives in 9, 51, 58, 83, 110, 148, 176, 182; Lucian paints 57

  Paris 31, 103, 109, 110, 111–12, 118

  Parker Bowles, Andrew 12, 192, 194, 200–201, 213, 231; Lucian paints 201–3

  Parker Bowles, Rosemary 202

  Paul, Celia 140–42, 160–61, 187, 215, 216, 234

  Paul, Frank 140, 161, 215–16, 235–6, 237

  Pearn, Inez Maria 71

  Picasso, Pablo 27, 111, 113, 115, 140, 147, 190

  Piggott, Lester 160

  Pinter, Harold 22–3, 236; Celebration 16

  Pitt-Rivers, Julian 86–7

  Playboy Club 143

  Pluto (whippet) 144, 147, 231

  Polge, Catherine 92

  Pollock, Jackson 30

  pop art 205

  postmodernism 10, 19, 204

  Price, Reynolds 71

  Proust, Marcel 179

  punk rock 27, 186, 223

  Queen of Spades, The (film) 87

  Quinn, Marc 211

  Raphael 131

  Rawstron, Diana 150, 151, 234

  Read, Sir Herbert 77

  Rembrandt 7, 190, 212

  Rendlesham, Clare, Lady 160

  Rhys, Jean, Voyage in the Dark 98

  Richards, Keith 27

  Richardson, Sir John 46–7, 48, 55, 64, 97, 139, 140, 147, 218, 231, 234

  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 212

  Rilke, Rainer Maria 42, 77

  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 39; ‘A Ramble in St James’s Park’ 40

  Rodin, Auguste: Naked Balzac with Folded Arms 131, 229; Iris 230; Meditation 230

  Rorem, Ned 111–12

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

  Rothermere, Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount 163

  Rothschild family 15

  Rothschild, Baron Eric de 155

  Rothschild, Sir Evelyn de 12, 237

  Rothschild, Hannah 143

  Rothschild, Jacob, 4th Baron 7, 189, 213–14, 234

  Rothschild, Lynn, Lady de 237

  Rothschild, Serena, Lady 143

  Rothschild, Victoria 236

  Rushdie, Sir Salman 2

  Saatchi, Kay 230

  Sackville-West, Vita 79

  Sag Harbor, Long Island 120

  Sainsbury, Simon 150

  St Aubyn, Edward 102

  St Germans, Jacquetta, Countess of see Eliot, Jacquetta

  St Germans, Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of 100

  St James’s Palace 142

  St John’s Wood 51, 67, 96, 115

  St Paul’s School 51

  Samson, Polly 236

  Saunders, Michael 133, 198–9

  Sayer, Honor 92–3

  Sayer, Jasper 92

  Schad, Christian 79

  sculpture, Lucian’s 43, 54, 154

  Seago, Edward 202

  self-portraits, Lucian’s 49, 103, 124, 130, 135, 157, 212, 228

  Serota, Sir Nicholas 16–17, 163, 234

  Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty 46

  Sewell, Brian 4

  Sex Pistols 27

  Shaffer, Sir Peter, Equus 21, 22

  Shaw-Lawrence, Bettina 69–70, 70, 74–5

  Silvers, Robert 121

  Sioux (horse) 147, 237

  Slade School of Fine Art 65; Lucian teaches at 135, 140, 222, 228

  Smith, Dame Maggie 2

  Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, photograph of Lucian 110

  Somerset, Lady Anne 102; historical writings 39

  Southwold, Suffolk 82

  Spencer, Sir Stanley 31–2, 32–3

  Spender, Matthew 71–3, 74

  Spender, Natasha, Lady 70–71, 73–4

  Spender, Sir Stephen: relationship with Lucian 6–7, 50, 55, 67, 70–74, 91, 128, 228; Lucian’s portraits of 12, 72–3, 74, 237; Encounter editor 127

  Streicher, Julius 46

  Stubbs, George 12

  Styler, Trudie 237

  Sunday Times 150

  surrealism 91

  Sutherland, Graham 50, 205

  Sutherland, John 71, 73–4

  Swift, Jonathan 127

  Sylvester, David 120

  Takis, Vassilakis 118–20

  Tate Britain, London 36

  Tate Gallery, London 17, 31, 205

  Tatler (magazine) 37, 127, 134, 202

  tattoos 138–9

  Tennant, Colin, 3rd Baron Glenconner 118, 204–5

  Tennant, David 86

  Tennant, Pauline 86–7

  Thomas, Dylan 67, 86, 127

  Thomas, Toni 90

  Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Heinrich ‘Heini’ 162–3

  Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 190

  Tilley, Sue (‘Big Sue’) 16, 144, 210–211

  Tissot, James Jacques, Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby 201–2

  Titian, Woman in a Fur Coat 154

  Toynbee, Philip 96

  Van Dyck, Sir Anthony 14

  Vatican 143

  Velázquez, Diego 7, 207

  Vogue (magazine) 63, 83, 102

  Vyner, Harriet 158–60, 161–2

  Wagner, Richard 42

  Walberswick, Suffolk 58

  Wallace, Richard 13

  Wallersteiner, Rebecca 218

  Ward, John 202

  Warhol, Andy 19

  Watson, Peter 67, 71, 75, 86, 94, 98, 197, 237

  Waugh, Evelyn 105, 111

  Wednesbury, Staffordshire 81

  Weinstein, Bob 125

  Weinstein, Harvey 125

  Weismuller, Johnny 224

  Weldon, Alice 185

  Wheeler’s restaurant, Soho 28, 136, 162, 184, 220

  whippets 10, 144, 147, 156, 227, 231

  White Cube gallery, London 211

  White’s (club) 94

  Wilberforce, William 162

  Wilde, Oscar 47, 87

  Williams, Jane (née Paul) 237

  Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury 237

  Williams-Wynn, Alexandra ‘Alexi’ 169–73, 170

  Willoughby, Jane, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby 17, 24, 25, 34, 118, 132, 153–5, 18
2, 197, 229, 235, 237; Lucian’s portrait of 152, 154

  Willoughby, Timothy, Lord Willoughby de Eresby 136, 155

  Wilton, John 180

  Wilton’s restaurant, Jermyn Street 208

  Winslet, Kate 220

  Wishart, Ernest 77, 81, 84

  Wishart, Francis 97, 98, 101, 102

  Wishart, Lorna (née Garman) 76, 85; relationship with Lucian 67, 77–8, 82–9, 93, 97; appearance and character 77, 81, 82; Lucian’s portraits of 77–9, 78, 80, 82, 90, 91, 101–2, 109; marriage to Ernest Wishart 77, 81; family background 79, 81–2; relationship with Laurie Lee 81, 83–4, 87; children 82, 85, 101; and Lucian’s marriage to Kitty Garman 89, 90; at son’s wedding to Anne Dunn 97–8

  Wishart, Michael 85, 92, 95, 96–8, 97, 101–2; High Diver 86, 96

  Wishart, Yasmin 82

  Wolseley restaurant, Piccadilly 12, 13–14, 15, 236

  Woods, Rob 53

  Woolf, Virginia 72

  Woolley, Janetta 95, 181

  Wormwood Scrubs (prison) 147

  Wyndham, Francis 39, 50, 99, 102

  Wyndham, Henry 228

  YBAs (Young British Artists) 211

  Yeats, Jack B. 230

  Yeats, W. B. 6; ‘The Gyres’ v

  Zentner, Carola 46, 55–7

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