Annie Freud (born 1948) is an English poet and artist. She is the eldest child of the artist

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, and his first wife Kitty Garman. Earlier in her career, she was a civil servant.

Biography

Freud's childhood has been described as being

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and very much within her father's circle. In 1963, aged 14, she posed naked for one of her father's pictures. Lucian Freud's biographer,

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, has written of this event that her father asked her to "remove her clothes and teenage inhibitions". This was, Grieg said, "a momentous and controversial event in Annie’s life. Many felt it was reprehensible, if not downright immoral. Lucian did not care. The question of whether it would damage his daughter simply did not occur to him". Freud herself later stated that the sitting had been a "wonderful time" for her and that the resulting work,—''Naked Child Laughing''—was "the picture of me by Dad that I most admire". On another occasion, however, she has been described as finding it an "unsettling experience", and one in which "It was all very well for Dad to say it was all right. No one else felt that it was." She would pose for Freud on other occasions—"11 or 12 times"—throughout her childhood. The first works of art she produced were on fabric and clothes, before moving on to board and paper. She was named by the

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as one of its

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for 2014 for her collection ''The Mirabelles''; at 66 years old, Freud was the eldest contender.

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has described Freud as being "one of the very few" artists who are also poets, and ''vice versa''. Freud's style of poetry has been described as "dramatic", "shocking" and "outspoken". Her first collection of poetry was published by Picador in 2006; two others were published by them subsequently.

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