We learn in this book of an encounter, in a side street in west London, Lucian Freud once had with a very large fox. It turned and glared furiously on hearing his approach. Freud immediately increased ...

Layla lives in a beautiful blue world. One day, her mother gives her a gift—a blue scarf that Layla lovingly wears around her neck. But when a gust of wind carries the scarf away, Layla sets out to ...

There is a comic scene, about halfway through art critic Martin Gayford's patient account of sitting for Lucian Freud for seven punishing months, when the two men are speeding down Bayswater Road in a ...

Now, six years after Man with a Blue Scarf has been completed, sold and hung in a private house in California, Gayford has published his diary (or an edited version thereof) to attempt to tell us what ...