How Lucian Freud Stalked His Muse

The painter Celia Paul was 18 when Lucian Freud began to pursue her. She tells Matilda Battersby: “I was really quite disturbed by [his] predatoriness.” For his part, Freud said it was “like walking into a honey pot” when he first saw Paul’s paintings. It was a pot he certainly stirred.

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