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, ...

William Feaver begins his intricate, densely textured biography with a remark made to him by the critic David Sylvester in 1995. Lucian Freud wasn’t, Sylvester said, “a born painter . . . [he] had ...

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 ...

The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president Ben Yagoda, photography by Ellen Jane Rogers The couch on which Freud’s patients lay became ...

The father of one of his girlfriends regarded him as the most selfish man he’d ever met. The poet Stephen Spender thought him evil. He repulsed many an art critic. ‘Parks have flashers, art has Freud, ...

The second and final volume of William Feaver’s biography of Lucian Freud (1922-2011) covers the period from the artist’s rise to stardom to his death. At a low ebb in the 1960s, no longer the ...

Adamancy is the word for both Sigmund Freud and Frederick Crews. In his new biography, “Freud: The Making of an Illusion,” the UC Berkeley professor emeritus castigates the fraudulent founder of ...

Picture for a moment the dowdy holiday shopper who spots Geordie Greig’s new Lucian Freud biography, Breakfast with Lucian, at the bookstore and, taken in by the title and the old man on the cover, ...

Throughout the last decade of his life, Lucian Freud and I met regularly for breakfast. And it was during our many conversations over the table at Clarke’s restaurant just a few doors down from the ...

The second and final volume of William Feaver’s biography of Lucian Freud (1922-2011) covers the period from the artist’s rise to stardom to his death. At a low ebb in the 1960s, no longer the ...