The girl who broke Lucian Freud’s heart

Geordie Greig's new book explores the artist's passionate love affair with a married woman.

As you'd expect, Geordie Greig's book on Lucian Freud devotes a great deal of space to the artist's appetite for women. The Greek sculptor Vassilakis Takis, who knew him well, estimated he had at least 500 lovers altogether, though never committed himself to any single woman for long.

Freud's attitude to women was affected by his strained relationship with his mother, who doted on him excessively, and by what Greig calls "the most blistering affair" of his life. This was with "a dark-haired, brown-eyed Siren" called Lorna Wishart.

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