{"product_id":"self-portrait-celia-paul-9781529111552","title":"Self-Portrait","description":"'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia Laing\nI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.\nIn 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.\n'Powerful' Zadie Smith\n'Engrossing' Vogue\n'Captivating... Mesmerising' New York Times\n**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize **","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49974364799264,"sku":"9781529111552","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529111552.jpg?v=1767885021","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/self-portrait-celia-paul-9781529111552","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}