This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...
Review of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. By Adam Phillips. Yale University Press. 178 pp. $25. Although he wrote speculative accounts about the lives of Moses, Michelangelo, ...