Self-Portrait - Paul, Celia
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"One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. [This book] tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the 'invisible skeins between…mehr

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"One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. [This book] tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the 'invisible skeins between people, ' the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. With over seventy illustrations, [this book] is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art"--
Autorenporträt
Celia Paul was born in 1959 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery (London), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her major solo exhibitions include Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at the Yale Center for British Art (2018) and the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California (2019); and Desdemona for Celia by Hilton at Gallery Met, New York (2015-16). Her work was included in the group exhibition All Too Human at Tate Britain (2018). She lives and works in London.