Sue Tilley, the 60-something retired benefits supervisor and beloved sitter for Lucian Freud, has an uncanny meeting with her oil-on-canvas image before it heads to auction next month.
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When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch $47 million
Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met the artist Lucian Freud. The paintings he made of her in the 1990s are now among the most famous in modern art — and the most valuable.
The subject of one of Lucian Freud’s “defining masterpieces” hopes the portrait will show people that “big girls can do well” as the painting goes up for auction and could fetch up to £35 million.The ...
Executive produced by the model herself, this retelling of the £3.9m painting is glossy and watchable – but ultimately too ...
A painting of Sue Tilley, who found fame after artist Lucien Freud depicted her in the nude, will be auctioned next month ...
Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’ - Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for ...
Ellie Bamber as Kate Moss in Moss & Freud, a movie with NZ Film Commission backing directed by Christchurch-raised James Lucas. When Kate Moss, at the height of her modelling fame, suggested in a ...
“Drawing is much more to an artist than just another medium,” said Mark Hudson in The Independent. For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in ...
A painting from the “Benefits Supervisor” series by Lucian Freud will arrive at Sotheby’s from the collection of billionaire Joe Lewis.
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Big girls can do well, says Freud muse as portrait could fetch £35m
Benefits supervisor Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud three decades ago. Now a painting of her could fetch £35m - ‘Big girls can do ...
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