The Live of Lucian Freud, Youth (1922–1968) (Signed copy)

This copy signed and inscribed by Scottish concemptual artist Robert Montgomery to his wife, the poet and model, Greta Bellamacina

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First edition, second printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, xvi + 680pp.

This copy carries a warm personal inscription from Scottish conceptual artist Robert Montgomery, to his wife, the poet and actress Greta Bellamacina. It reads "For my darling Greta, All muddled-up within the myths. With my heart, Robert x, Christmas 2019". Robert Montgomery (b.1972) is a contemporary artist and poet known for bringing verse directly into public space. Grounded in the post-Situationist tradition and conceptual text art, his work uses melancholy, lyrical, and political prose to address themes of ecology, consumer culture, love, and human connection. He gained prominent international recognition through his subversive, guerrilla-style billboard hijackings. Beginning primarily with his Words in the City at Night series in London, he routinely pasted white-on-black typographic poems illegally over commercial advertisements—often working covertly in the middle of the night.

Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver—about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography.

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 time in the Navy during the war, 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.

Condition

The book is in very good condition, though with a few pencil marks to the pages' lower edge. Robert Montgomery's inscription is clear. The dustwrapper is a little creased along the bottom edge and folded a little roughly at the front flap but it has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.

ISBN

9781408850930

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