Breakfast With Lucian: The Astounding Life And Outrageous Times Of Britain's Great Modern Painter

"This intimate, dishy biography of the notoriously private and priapic artist Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) is a rare case in which the text and illustrations are equally astonishing. Geordie Greig exposes Freud’s messy life, which was driven by his obsessions with art, sex and gambling. Most of his overlapping lovers modeled for the raw portraits that stripped his sitters bare in every sense. So did seven of his acknowledged 14 children — a circumstance that had journalists aquiver about the Freudian implications."