Lucian once told me that in the 1960s, a decade when his work was out of fashion and hard to sell, gambling helped him, Freud biographer Martin Gayford wrote in an article for The Spectator in 2013. Did he mean it helped him to make money? No, he answered, it helped him not to care too much about money. Though Freud claimed not to care about his finances and seemed unconcerned about whether his paintings sold, he never had too much to worry aboutby his late twenties, hed already earned art world respect.
Freud liked both winning and losingno matter the outcome, the noted workhorse could always go home to paint (he maintained his practice until he died, in 2011, at age 88). When he became more successful, and his art-making itself was le…
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