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One of the benefits of being married to an artist is finding an odd and engaging book like this.

Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund himself, and, along with Francis Bacon, the enfant terrible of modern British painting, was an omnivore: consuming art, friends, sexual partners (hundreds), wives (2), children (14), and the wealthy social elite with equal gusto.

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It’s hard not to regard this jaunty mix of biography and celebrity profiling by newspaper editor Georgie Greig with equal parts awe and distain. Freud, who died in 2011 at age 88, may have been an artistic genius, but he was also someone who unapologetically used people like an elegant meal that he would toss away, half eaten, as soon as he saw a more enticing dish appear.

He had many passionate affairs, but in the end, his only true loves were himself and painting.

After years of pursuit, Greig succeeded