Moss & FreudFreud painted Moss over the course of nine months during her pregnancy with daughter Lila. “He taught me discipline, because I could not be late,” Moss recalled during awith ShowStudio’s Nick Knight, with their sessions lasting from 7pm to 2am, three nights a week. “If I was five minutes late, he would kick off.
Fortunately, Moss has her own artwork to remember the sitting by: a pair of birds that Freud tattooed onto her lower back. “I mean, it’s an original Freud,” Moss later, adding that the artist used to tattoo his fellow sailors in the navy. “I wonder how much a collector would pay for that? A few million? If it all goes horribly wrong I could get a skin graft and sell it! It’s probably the only one on skin that’s still around.
Freud is just one of many artists to take Moss as a muse. Allen Jones made a cast of the ’90s icon using resin and steel , while Marc Quinn made a number of sculptures of her in a contorted yoga position. One of the latter now functions as a hat rack in Moss’s home in the Cotswolds.It’s being penned by an Oscar winner
Screenwriter James Lucas brought home an Academy Award for his 2013 short with Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent, and started writingwhile “in Lucian’s studio, the scent of his oil paint still lingering in the air”. As an executive producer, Moss is also heavily involved in the development of the project, as is the Lucian Freud Archive.