The Kwiasatz haderach (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} i_muad_dib) wrote,@ 2008-04-12 13:42:00 |
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here we go again...
By Gervase de Wilde and Agencies
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Christie's expect a life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping to smash auction records in May.
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping', which is being sold by a private European collector, is predicted to fetch up to £18 million at the New York sale.
The auction house believes that the masterpiece will beat the current world auction record for a work by a living artist, held by Jeff Koons's 'Hanging Heart (Magenta and Gold)', which was bought by art dealer Larry Gagosian for £11.3 million in November 2007.
Koons's work had itself knocked Damien Hirst's medicine-cabinet exhibit 'Lullaby Spring', which went for £10 million at Sotheby's in June 2007, from the top spot.
Freud has previously competed with American Jasper Johns for the position of the world's most expensive living artist.
The 1995 Freud painting, appearing at auction for the first time, depicts rotund Londoner Sue Tilley, now 51, sleeping on a dilapidated sofa.
The British artist, 85, first painted 'Big Sue' in 'Evening in the Studio' (1993), for which Ms Tilley had to lie in an uncomfortable pose on a bare floor.
Tilley, who posed for Freud for four years in the early 1990s, has said in the past of being his muse: "I think he probably picked me because he got value for money. He got a lot of flesh."
The painting will be on public view in London for the first time at a special exhibition at Christie's and will go on sale on the other side of the Atlantic as the highlight of Christie's New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 13.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh
The fact that Lucian Freud is one of the greatest comtemporary artists alive is unquestionable.
This kind of moronics speculation is not.
Lucian Freud painting expected to smash auction records
By Gervase de Wilde and Agencies
Last Updated: 1:01pm BST 11/04/2008
Christie's expect a life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping to smash auction records in May.Benefits Supervisor Sleeping', which is being sold by a private European collector, is predicted to fetch up to £18 million at the New York sale.
The auction house believes that the masterpiece will beat the current world auction record for a work by a living artist, held by Jeff Koons's 'Hanging Heart (Magenta and Gold)', which was bought by art dealer Larry Gagosian for £11.3 million in November 2007.
Koons's work had itself knocked Damien Hirst's medicine-cabinet exhibit 'Lullaby Spring', which went for £10 million at Sotheby's in June 2007, from the top spot.
Freud has previously competed with American Jasper Johns for the position of the world's most expensive living artist.
The 1995 Freud painting, appearing at auction for the first time, depicts rotund Londoner Sue Tilley, now 51, sleeping on a dilapidated sofa.
The British artist, 85, first painted 'Big Sue' in 'Evening in the Studio' (1993), for which Ms Tilley had to lie in an uncomfortable pose on a bare floor.
Tilley, who posed for Freud for four years in the early 1990s, has said in the past of being his muse: "I think he probably picked me because he got value for money. He got a lot of flesh."
The painting will be on public view in London for the first time at a special exhibition at Christie's and will go on sale on the other side of the Atlantic as the highlight of Christie's New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 13.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh
The fact that Lucian Freud is one of the greatest comtemporary artists alive is unquestionable.
This kind of moronics speculation is not.
