A Memoir of Lucian Freud by Rose Boyt
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The Freud Museum London
Description
To celebrate the publication of her latest book Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud, celebrated author and artist Rose Boyt will be in conversation with Juliet Rosenfeld at the Freud Museum.
‘Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not the right time to think about anything. I was heartbroken.
As I remembered it the diary was about sitting again, an easy portrait this time, fully clothed, the manuscript mainly a record of my father’s remarkable stories. I imagined all his stories were amusing, uncontentious, but even if that had been true I still would not have been ready. It is unclear to me now how I was able so effectively to distort reality.’
In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, through the diary and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman, but for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.
SPEAKERS
Rose Boyt was born in London and as a child lived on a cargo ship trading in the Baltic and beyond. With her mother and siblings she emigrated to the Caribbean, but the family was repatriated. She left home when she was fifteen and in the seventies began to take photographs and had a Saturday job at the punk shop Seditionaries. In the eighties she worked as a DJ and on the door of the Café De Paris, and is the author of three novels.
Juliet Rosenfeld is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and writer who works in London. She has a special clinical interest in both grief and love (as the two are often so profoundly entwined) and working with those who have suffered bereavement, recently or in the past. Juliet read languages at Oxford before a ten year career in advertising and marketing, ending up in the Civil Service. Juliet qualified in 2012 as an integrative psychotherapist but is passionate about psychoanalysis and specifically how its ideas can be useful and applied to bigger audiences. Juliet is also a Trustee of the Freud Museum London.
TICKETS
Tickets include a welcome drink, book signing, plus special after-hours viewing of the Museum.
Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.
Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE.
The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.
