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Lot Essay
The subject of the present work is Annabel Freud, daughter of the artist and Kitty Godley. Kitty's father was the sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein.
William Feaver discusses the artist's sitters, 'Often Freud's sitter's became friends; more often, when he asked them to pose, they were friends already, or otherwise close to him. 'And who closer than my children?' Annie and Annabel from his first marriage, Rose, Ib, Ali and Susie Boyt, Bella and Esther Freud ... to paint them was to get to know them, intensively so, often after missing the childhood years. Freud has rationalised his sporadic fatherliness. 'If you're not there when they are in the nest you can be more there later.'' (see W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, London, 2002, p. 35).
Alan Ross, C.B.E. (1922-2001), author, poet, publisher and journalist was Editor of the London Magazine from 1961 until 2001. Aside from journalistic responsibilities he was a passionate sportsman, having played cricket and squash for both Oxford University and the Royal Navy. After serving in the Navy from 1942, he was appointed Interpreter to British Naval-Commander-in-Chief in Germany at the end of the Second World War. After the war he travelled to Corsica with John Minton where he wrote the enormously popular Time was away (1948), illustrated by Minton, which heralded Ross as writer. From 1950 he worked for The Observer until 1971 and as their cricket correspondent toured to Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. He collected contemporary British art and was also a travel writer and editor of a large number of books as well as being a contributor to many journals in England and America.
William Feaver discusses the artist's sitters, 'Often Freud's sitter's became friends; more often, when he asked them to pose, they were friends already, or otherwise close to him. 'And who closer than my children?' Annie and Annabel from his first marriage, Rose, Ib, Ali and Susie Boyt, Bella and Esther Freud ... to paint them was to get to know them, intensively so, often after missing the childhood years. Freud has rationalised his sporadic fatherliness. 'If you're not there when they are in the nest you can be more there later.'' (see W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, London, 2002, p. 35).
Alan Ross, C.B.E. (1922-2001), author, poet, publisher and journalist was Editor of the London Magazine from 1961 until 2001. Aside from journalistic responsibilities he was a passionate sportsman, having played cricket and squash for both Oxford University and the Royal Navy. After serving in the Navy from 1942, he was appointed Interpreter to British Naval-Commander-in-Chief in Germany at the end of the Second World War. After the war he travelled to Corsica with John Minton where he wrote the enormously popular Time was away (1948), illustrated by Minton, which heralded Ross as writer. From 1950 he worked for The Observer until 1971 and as their cricket correspondent toured to Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. He collected contemporary British art and was also a travel writer and editor of a large number of books as well as being a contributor to many journals in England and America.