The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 – 1968

Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his confidante and collaborator William Feaver.

In Youth, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934. Following Freud through art school, his war-time in the Navy, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho – consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret – Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.