Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is a 1995 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Lucian Freud depicting a naked woman lying on a couch. It is a portrait of Sue Tilley, a Jobcentre supervisor. [1] Tilley is the author of a biography of the Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled Leigh Bowery, The Life and Times of an Icon. Jul 12, 2022 Filthy Art. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) by Lucien Freud All art is filthy. And naked art is the filthiest. By definition. No matter your intentions like Michelangelo who.
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Exhibition at UNIT9 Project Space in London
Tilley, who went on to become something of an art world celebrity, was the sitter for Freud's painting Benefits Advisor Sleeping which became the highest selling painting by a living artist when it sold for $33.64 million in 2008. Tilley told the Guardian: "Lucian was the most hilarious man I'd ever met. In Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Freud creates one of his most frank and unnerving images of nakedness. The resulting tension between the physicality of the figure and the flat plane of the paper gives this subject its disturbing impact. Publication excerpt from an essay by Wendy Weitman, in Deborah A brief look at Freud's Benefits Supervisor SleepingTwitter: https://twitter.com/ARTHIST_101 Video: Lucian Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sold for $33,641,000 on May 13, 2008 in our New York auction, becoming the most expensive Lucian Freud pain.
Sue Tilley, Lucian Freuds muse for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, at
Widely acclaimed as one of Lucian Freud's greatest works, Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Resting vividly illustrates his unparalled technique and ability. Benefits Supervisor Resting is poised to break the previous auction record for the artist achieved in 2008 with another portrait of the same sitter, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which sold for $33.6 million, setting a record at the time for any living artist. In 1995, Lucian Freud painted "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping". It sold in 2008 for $33 million --the most ever paid for a painting by a living artist. Lucian Freud died this week at 88. Details Lucian Freud (1922-2011) Benefits Supervisor Resting oil on canvas 59 1/4 x 63 1/2 in. (150.5 x 161.2 cm.) Painted in 1994. Provenance Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995 Literature
Lucian Freud Benefits Supervisor sleeping (1995) museum Oil
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is a 1995 oil on canvas painting by Lucian Freud depicting an obese, naked woman lying on a couch. It is a portrait of Sue Tilley, then weighing about 127 kilograms (280 lb), a Job Centre supervisor. Tilley is the author of a biography of the Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled "Leigh Bowery, The Life and Times of an Icon". The painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is put on show at Christies Photograph: Rex Features/Ray Tang Lucian Freud painting the Queen in 2001 Photograph: David Dawson/Government Art Collection.
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH [1] ( / frɔɪd /; 8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping oil on canvas 59 5/8 x 86¼ in. (151.3 x 219 cm.) Painted in 1995. Provenance Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York Private collection, Europe Literature B. Bernard and D. Birdsall, Lucian Freud, London, 1996, pp. 330-331, no. 281 (illustrated in color).
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"As Freud attained the status of an Old Master, the value of his pictures rose ever higher, culminating in his 1995 painting, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, fetching $33,641,000 at Christie's, New York, in 2008 - making it the most expensive work by a living artist that had ever sold at auction," Gayford writes. In 2008, one of his paintings of Sue Tilley, titled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), sold for $33.6 million, which was the highest price ever recorded for a living artist (until 2012). In 2015, a few years after his death, this same painting sold at a Christie's auction in New York for a staggering $56.2 million. Freud's painting of the.
