Lucian Freud Sue Tilley Paintings. My life as an artist’s muse clair woodward talks to sue tilley about her modelling for lucian freud and the painting of her that sold for £35.2million in new york. Freud had a set of regular sitters, including his family, especially his mother (the painter's mother iv) and his daughters, artist friends and models, such as the performance artist leigh bowery and sue tilley, the 'benefits supervisor' of several paintings of the 1990s.
This painting was sold by the british auction house, christie, for more than $33.6 million, setting a world. Unsurprisingly, it made tilley’s name recognisable within the art. It is a portrait of sue tilley , a job centre supervisor, [1] then weighing about 127 kilograms (280 lb).
‘Part Of My Life Is Gone.’.
Lucian freud painted it a total of four times. He trained at art school, and in the immediate postwar. The life and times of an icon, london 1997, p.220.) bowery posed regularly for freud over a four year period.
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Freud’s first painting of him was leigh bowery (seated) 1990 (private collection). Through bowery tilley was introduced to internationally acclaimed artist lucian freud, eventually becoming his muse: One of lucian freud’s more famous paintings depicts a fertility goddess having a nap on her sofa.
One Of These Pictures, “ Benefits Supervisor Sleeping ”, Was Auctioned In May 2008 As The Most Expensive Painting By A Living Artist To Date.
She is also the most lucrative: Freud created benefits supervisor sleeping (1995) depicting the very large sue tilley. “bodymap are showing about six outfits with models including barry kamen and les child….
She Modelled For Lucian Freud In The Early 1990S, A Seminal Period Of The Artist's Career And One Of His Portraits Of Her Entitled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Sold For A Record £17.2 Million, The Highest Price Paid For A Painting By A Living Artist.
The story of an unlikely muse. The english portrait painter, who died in 2011, painted tilley, who he called “fat sue”, four times and paid her £20 a day to sit for him. Lucian freud’s paintings of benefits supervisor sue tilley set records at auction houses.
On The Friday At 6Pm Cavalcade Of The 80S Is A Catwalk Fashion Show Presented By Sue Tilley, Leigh Bowery’s Biographer And Lucian Freud Model.
Freud paid her £33 a. Like me he is interested in the underbelly of things.’ (quoted in sue tilley, leigh bowery: Freud was born in berlin, to ernst freud, the youngest son of the great psychoanalyst sigmund, and lucie brasch.
