Nude Fat Woman Painting Expected to Fetch Big Ass Bid
The painting of a very large nude fat woman reclining on a couch is predicted to fetch big ass bucks for the artist, 85-year-old Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud.
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Lucian Freud
The auction house Christies plans on presenting Freud’s obese masterpiece next month and expects the winning bid to slash previous records for art work by a “living” artist at a record £18m.
The model, known as “Big Sue” posed for Freud in the early 1990′s. The painting, titled, “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” was painted in 1995 and sold privately.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Freud is rumored to have sired 41 illegitimate children. Known as Britain’s greatest living figurative painter, Freud was castigated after his painting of Queen Elizabeth was revealed in 2001.
Described as “a travesty” by the paper, the Sun, who wrote that Freud should be “locked up in the tower”. Even so, the painting now hangs in Buckingham Palace in the Queen’s Collection.
By LBG
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Source – The Independent – Freud’s ‘Big Sue’ expected to fetch £18M at auction
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