HIS TWO DAUGHTERS BY HIS FIRST WIFE
DURING his five-year marriage (1947-1952) to Kitty Garman, the illegitimate daughter of sculptor Jacob Epstein, Freud had two daughters, Annie and Annabel, his only legitimate children. 1. Troubled poet whom Daddy painted nude AnnIe, who was born in 1948, was painted nude by her father at the age of 14, for his 1963 portrait naked Child laughing. she recalled him moving her hair off her nipples with his paintbrush.
‘there was some hurt done, not intentionally, and it was nothing to do with sex — perhaps it was more an intrusion into innocence. It was all very well for dad to say it was all right. no one else felt that it was,’ she said recently.
she became an embroiderer and then worked in local government. she is now a poet.
Annie lives in dorset with her second husband, a retired electrical engineer, whom she met on the internet. Her daughter May, 42, by her French- born first husband Jean-loup Courret, lives in suffolk. lucian was furious when Annie wouldn’t let May — his granddaughter — pose for him at the age of six. she was shocked when she discovered the existence of her half-siblings and felt ‘ anchorless’ over Freud’s betrayal — suffering a nervous breakdown. 2. Daughter and muse Freud painted Annabel (four years Annie’s junior)both clothed and nude, as a child and later as an adult woman in 1988’s Annabel sleeping, which shows her in a blue dressing gown. Annabel married an architect in 1974, with whom she has a daughter, Katie louise, 34.
today, she lives in a modest flat in tulse Hill, south london.