Thursday, December 18, 2014

Copy of Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (original size-(151.3 x 219 cm.) ). Practise exercise (1995 by Lucien Freud) (II)

Oil on Canvas.
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 20 st (127 kg), a Job Centre supervisor.The painting held the world record for the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist, of US$33.6 million (£17.2 million). It was sold at Christie's in New York in May 2008 to Roman Abramovich. (Wikipedia).
Freud never used photos in his paintings: he was an old fashioned painter. 
This is my humble copy of this painting....

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