Pièce IE LMOD 711 - 1952 Lucian and Brendan by Daniel Farson

Photographic paper, ink. 58.5 x 50.5 cm

31/08/2011

A black and white photograph of Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan chatting outside the Mansion House. From Getty 'German born English artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, cigarette in hand, converses with Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964) in Dublin.'

The artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, chats with Brendan Behan outside the Mansion House. Freud was a frequent visitor to Dublin in the 1950s. Behan was a novelist, poet and playwright, as well as a former member of the IRA. This picture was taken two years before his first major success, The Quare Fellow.