Self-Portrait

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I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer. ‘Self-Portrait’ reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves.

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‘Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what’ Olivia Laing

I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer.

In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She moves effortlessly through time, in words and images, from her arrival at the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio. This intimate memoir is, at its heart, about a young woman navigating the path to artistic freedom, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails.

‘Powerful’ Zadie Smith
‘Engrossing’ Vogue
‘Captivating… Mesmerising’ New York Times

**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize **

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Weight 0.357 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13.2 × 1.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

224

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

759.2 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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