LUCIAN FREUD | Two letters and a postcard, with drawings, to Ann Fleming

FREUD, LUCIAN

Two autograph letters signed with initial ("Love L."), and a picture postcard incorporating original drawings, to Ann Fleming

writing with surreal humour from the Flemings' Jamaican home ("...I am still sitting in the banana wood in almost exactly the same place and am now such a fixture there that birds sit on me and spiders use my head to help hold up their new webs..."), from Paris shortly before his marriage to Caroline Blackwood, and from Nice ("...The chances of winning at the casinos have become even slimmer since hordes of English confidence tricksters disguised as retired Colonels (which they are) surround the roulette tables and misuse their voices, born to command, to claim the rightful winnings of less experiences gamblers..."), the postcard depicting the cliff-side Corniche D'Or with a cyclist and group of rock-climbers added in ink by Freud, 5 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Goldeneye, Jamaica, and Hotel la Louisiane, Paris, [1953] 

Ann Fleming met Lucian Freud through Cyril Connolly in the later 1940s, and he became part of the coterie of writers, artists, and intellectuals with whom the then Viscountess Rothermere surrounded herself. Freud painted her portrait and it was through Ann that Freud met Caroline Blackford, who became his second wife in December 1953.

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