Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939–1954 – A Times Best Art Book of 2022A Times Best Art Book of 2022 Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 19391954 offers insightful context and commentary with reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's letters that reveal the foundations of the artist's personality and creative practice. The young Lucian Freud was described by his friend Stephen Spender as "totally alive, like something not entirely human, a leprechaun, a changeling child, or, if there is a male opposite, a witch."