A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by the British artist Lucian Freud, is expected to set a record for any work by a living artist when it goes up for auction Tuesday night. Christie's auction house in New York expects the life-size 1995 portrait to sell for between $25 million and $35 million. "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" depicts Sue Tilley, a manager of a government-run job center in London, lying on her side on a worn-out couch with nothing to hide her folds of flesh. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/13/freud.art/index.html?eref=ib_topstories The model:
His sketches are really impressive. THe preparation for that nude is one of the greatest things I have seen (and I am not a fan of representative art) he has a version of it etched in copper that is just beautiful.
