He was one of the greatest British artists of the past century - but as a brilliant new biography reveals, Lucian Freud had a personal life as colourful as it was turbulent. On Saturday, our first extract told how his sexual magnetism helped him seduce as many as 500 lovers. Today, we reveal how those affairs gave rise to up to 30 children - some damaged for life by the father whose love they hungered for ...
All his life, Lucian Freud scorned the idea of living with his children. So his eldest daughter, Annie, grew up accepting that she could see him only intermittently.
Her bond with him, however, was a close one — until she reached the age of 27.
She was having lunch with her father at Wheeler’s in Soho when a young man walked up to their table and stretched out his hand. ‘I’m your long-lost baby brother, Ali,’ he told her.
Lucian Freud standing on his head in his studio with his daughter, the fashion designer Bella Freud, pictured in 1983
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