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Essay by Sebastian Smee. 238 pages. 168 plates. Hardcover with dustjacket. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 22.5 x 15 cm. This book reproduces 168 drawings made by the painter Lucian Freud when he was seventeen years old. Freud passed the first winter of World War II in a cottage in Capel Curig, Wales, with a school friend, David Kentish, and the poet Stephen Spender. It was during this stay that the majority of the drawings assembled here were realized, with the remainder executed in London later that year. The drawings are reproduced actual size and most are seen here for the first time.