Never-Before-Seen Letters From Teenage Lucian Freud Feature Fluid Sexuality And Emo Angst

In 1941, at the age of 19, Lucian Freud wrote a letter to his friend, poet and critic Stephen Spender. At the time, Freud was studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex, on his way to becoming the masterful handler of paint we know today, whose impasto portraits of unclothed figures both entrance and repulse. After spending 70 years in the Spender family collection, Freud's unpublished letters are heading to auction. They're slated to sell at Sotheby's Contempor...