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Freud, Lucian (1922 – 2011)

‘In the middle of painting my mother’s stomach this morning, I read it again.’

A rare and intriguing autograph letter signed by Lucian Freud, in bold pencil.

Dated ‘Monday night’ [January, 1984], Freud writes to Angela Dyer, noting that Lawrence Gowing had sent him a copy of her letter to him. In part, ‘I don’t know if he’s had any letters about the book but I certainly have not. Though I am rather immune to abuse and praise I had a feeling of exitement (sic) on reading what you wrote that I’ve only felt on suddenly coming across someone I really like the look of.’‘So, right in the middle of painting my mother’s stomach this morning, I read it again.’

Letters folds, otherwise in fine condition.

Together with a letter from the artist Lawrence Gowing to Angela Dyer, in which he responds to her ‘fan letter’, saying that he sent it straight on to Freud, and noting, ‘You may have already heard from him.’

Gowing’s book on Freud was published in 1982.