Self-Portrait (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781681374826)

A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure--the painter Lucian Freud--and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art.

One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her.

Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.

Author: Celia Paul
ISBN-10: 168137482X
ISBN-13: 9781681374826
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d