1. Kathleen Eleonora "Kitty" Garman, later Kitty Epstein and Kitty Godley, was a British artist and muse.
11 Facts About Kitty Garman
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Kitty Garman was a model for her father Jacob Epstein, her first husband Lucian Freud, and Andrew Tift.
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Kitty Garman was born in 1926, her father was Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, and her mother was Kathleen Garman.
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Kitty Garman's father was married and he would visit her mother in Chelsea between 6 and 7 pm each day.
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Kitty Garman's mother lived a Bohemian life that was considered unsuitable for bringing up her children.
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Kitty Garman studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under the tuition of Bernard Meninsky and was taught book illustration by John Farleigh.
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Kitty Garman's elder brother Theodore Garman was a talented painter, who suffered from schizophrenia and died suddenly aged only 29 in 1954, and her younger sister Esther died by suicide in the same year.
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In 1955 Kitty Garman married the musician and economist Wynne Godley.
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Kitty Garman's father used her husband's "impossibly handsome" head as the model for his statue of St Michael at the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral.
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Kitty Garman continued to draw and paint throughout her life and took an active interest in the Walsall gallery until her death.
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Kitty Garman has been the subject of many portraits, including Freud's Portrait of Kitty Garman and the famous Girl with a White Dog as well as drawings and sculptures by her father.