Freud's voice rings out on every page, offering opinions on everything ... There's plenty of celebrity juice here too

Guardian, Best Art Books of 2020

The painter emerges as fully three-dimensional in this second part of Feaver's biography

THE TIMES, Best Paperbacks of 2022

Huge, gossipy and sometimes shocking … no less breezy and eye-popping than the first

The Times and Sunday Times Best Books of 2020

The concluding volume of Feaver's unmissable biography sees the great painter evolving from enfant terrible into Old Devil - although really was a man ever so uncompromisingly himself from cradle to grave? As a life it's both a horrible warning and a shining example, and Feaver does it justice

Daily Telegraph

Freud was a wonderful painter – a genius – but a frequently awful human being. His endless feuds and fights, his numerous sexual partners, his extraordinary work and his eccentricities are all vividly chronicled in this, the second volume of Fever's monumental biography

Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year

Lucian Freud wanted William Feaver's biography of him to be 'the first funny art book' … [this is] certainly that, with laughs galore. But it's also much more, not least a wonderfully vivid chronicle of the interlocking worlds of money, art and bohemia

Observer, Best Books of 2020