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HewasthemostinterestingmaninLondon,conventionalwisdomhadit.Idon’tthinkIevermetanyonemoreremarkable.
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Buthealwaysunderstoodtheusesofmystery,foraidinghisreputationandsavingit.Hisprivateliferemainedhisprivatelife,andhekeptitprivatesohecouldwork.Itwasallabouttheworkintheend.
Wemetnearly20yearsagothroughLadyCarolineBlackwood,thedark-wittednovelisttowhomhewasmarriedbrieflyduringthe1950s.She’stheoneinthose
Occasionallyhewouldtelephonemeatsomeoddhour,totalkaboutwhathewaspaintingoranexhibitionhehadseen.Hewentstraighttothepoint,butthentheconversationwoulddrift,andhewouldrecallsomethingappallingaboutPicassoorsomethingcleverGiacomettihadtoldhimorsomethingabouthisgrandfatherSigmund,whomherememberedfondly,orhisauntAnna,whomhedetested.
Mostlywemetinhisstudioorathome.Slowlyhewouldpresenteachworkinprogress.Half-finished,hispicturesoftenlookedungainlytome.Ididn’talwaysknowwhattosay.IonlyknewthatthelastthingtosaytoLucianwouldbeanythingpoliteorconventional.
Heloathedgentilityandsocialconvention.Tohimtheysmackedoffakery,likethevariousartisticsymbolisms,Surrealismamongthem,thatmodernpaintinghad