Naked Portrait: Rose Boyt in Conversation with Rachel Cooke

Rose Boyt discusses her intriguing, painterly new book, Naked Portrait, a very personal account of sitting for a portrait by her father Lucian Freud.

Told through the memories and misrememberings of the making of a painting, Naked Portrait is a one-of-a-kind study in being an artist, the complexities of family love, and of Lucian Freud’s extraordinary work.

Rose Boyt was born in London and as a child lived on a cargo ship trading in the Baltic and beyond. With her mother and siblings she emigrated to the Caribbean, but the family was repatriated. She left home when she was fifteen and in the seventies began to take photographs and had a Saturday job at the punk shop Seditionaries. In the eighties she worked as a DJ and on the door of the Café De Paris. She is the author of three novels.

Boyt will be in conversation with journalist and writer Rachel Cooke. Cooke writes regularly for the Observer and New Statesman. She is also the author of Her Brilliant Career and Kitchen Person.

The event will be followed by a book signing. Doors will open from 6:45pm.

Host or Publisher Foyles Bookshop, 107 Charing Cross Road