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Kathleen Eleonora "Kitty" Garman, later Kitty Epstein and Kitty Godley (27 August 1926 – 11 January 2011), was a British artist and muse. She was a model for her father Jacob Epstein, her first husband Lucian Freud (including Portrait of Kitty ), and Andrew Tift.
- Early Life
- Relationship with Jacob Epstein
- Children
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Kathleen Garman was born on 15 May 1901 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, the daughter of Dr Walter Chancellor Garman (1860–1923), a general practitioner, and his wife, Margaret Frances Magill. She was one of nine children, seven sisters and two brothers: Mary (1898), Sylvia (1899), Kathleen (1901), Douglas (1903), Rosalind (1904), Helen (1906), Mavin ...
In 1921, Kathleen began a relationship with the married sculptor Jacob Epstein, becoming his model and his mistress. Her father, who strongly disapproved of the affair, cut her out of his will when he died in 1923. In 1923, Epstein's jealous wife Margaret invited Kathleen to her house and shot her in the shoulder with a pearl-handled pistol. Epstei...
Kathleen's three children with Jacob Epstein were: 1. Theodore Garman (1924–1954) was a successful artist, but suffered from mental instability, diagnosed as schizophrenia. It was said on his death, shortly before his 30th birthday, that he had "destroyed most of his canvasses in fits of depression". 2. Kitty Garman (1926–2011) was the first wife o...
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans (2004) by Cressida Connolly, Fourth Estate. ISBN 1-84115-633-7.
14 de fev. de 2011 · Kitty Godley, who died on January 11 aged 84, was the daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the first wife of Lucian Freud, inspiring a number of his most important early paintings. 14...
19 de jan. de 2011 · Gostaríamos de exibir a descriçãoaqui, mas o site que você está não nos permite.
Kitty Godley’s wide-eyed beauty, if not her name, will be familiar to almost anyone with an interest in British art of the 20th century. For though she was married to the economist Wynne Godley for
The model for the work was Kitty Godley, born in 1926, formerly the model and wife of artist Lucian Freud and model and daughter of Jacob Epstein. She is now portrayed, aged 80, by Andrew Tift in this fascinating series of works displayed along side work by Freud from the Garman Ryan Collection.
27 de mar. de 2023 · Lucian Freud foi casado com Kitty Godley e com Lady Caroline Blackwood, ambas bastante presentes na mostra, e teve duas filhas com a primeira, igualmente bastante retratadas. Mas ele reconheceu outros 12 filhos que teve com amantes e há quem estime que o número total de rebentos possa chegar a 40.
