Overweight nude to set art world record

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May 13, 2008, 09:52 PM

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

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ALalen1New Member

May 13, 2008, 09:55 PM

Thats really expensive for a art isn't it?

quelonioNew Member

May 13, 2008, 09:57 PM

"Celtkin wrote:
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
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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.

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