Lucian Freud said it was "like walking into a honey pot" when he first saw Celia Paul's paintings. What Paul, who met Freud as her tutor at the Slade in 1978, didn't realise then, but laughs wryly ...

Two years later, in 1978, Celia Paul met Lucian Freud, who was at Slade as a visiting tutor. ... Paul and Freud were lovers for 10 years, and in 1984 she gave birth to their son, Frank.

The painter known to many as Lucian Freud's one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well. Review: Celia Paul, Lucian Freud's ex, pens "Self ...

The book explores how the British artist's mother was her most trusted sitter and Paul's thoughts on Lucian Freud’s depictions of her during their relationship ...

Celia Paul is a British artist who had a relationship (and a son) with one of Britain’s most famous contemporary artists, Lucian Freud. (Freud, a descendant of Sigmund, died in 2011.) Paul has ...

Lucian Freud’s Sitters Celia Paul. Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 3019 words. L ucian Freud resembled certain film directors – Ingmar Bergman, for example – in that the lead ...

Within minutes, the conversation turned to painter Celia Paul. In her 2019 memoir Self Portrait , Paul recounts her decade-long love affair with the renowned painter Lucian Freud, which began in 1978.

The year after Lucian died, I painted my response to Freud’s painting which I also titled Painter and Model (2012). Then in 2022, I removed the “model.” I am no longer anyone’s model.

Celia Paul, "Reclining Painter" (2023) from Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025 (MACK, ... After beginning a relationship with Lucian Freud while a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, ...

This is what I see in Paul’s “Ghost of a Girl with an Egg” (2022), which is not just an obvious reference to Lucian Freud’s “Naked Girl with Egg,” from four decades earlier—it is a ...

Celia Paul is a British artist known for her impressionistic work and intimate depictions of people and places. View Celia Paul’s 62 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

In 2019, the artist Celia Paul wrote a memoir to correct the notion that she was simply Freud’s muse ... Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud by Rose Boyt Picador £22, 416 pages.