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Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Paul, Celia

Hardcover

ArtistsBiographies GeneralGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 168137482X
ISBN13: 9781681374826
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

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