Man with a Blue Scarf. On Sitting fo a Portrait by Lucian Freud

A beautifully produced paperback edition of this literary artbook, hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud (19222011) spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. As Freud creates a portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the notoriously private artist, recounting their wide-ranging conversations and giving a rare insight into Freuds working practice.