Celia Paul
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no usual communication is possible between us but, as my mother used to say, 'Time is a strange substance' and who knows really, with our time-bound comprehension of the world, whether there might be some channel by which we can speak to each other, if we only knew how." Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John centers on a series of letters addressed...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son;...
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