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.
Sue Tilley posed nude for British artist Lucian Freud in the 1990s for a modest day rate.
Two of the four portraits Freud painted of Tilley have broken auction records for the artist's work.
Now another painting of Tilley is heading to auction with an estimated value of up to $45 million.
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When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch $47 million
Lucian Freud portrait of his muse Sue Tilley could sell for £35m
Lucian Freud painting of Sue Tilley could fetch $47 million
‘Big girls can do well’ says Lucian Freud muse as portrait could fetch £35m
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Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud. His paintings of her in the 1990s are now…
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Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud
Freud painted benefits supervisor Sue Tilley in numerous works between 1993 and 1996
En oljemålning av socialbidragshandläggaren Sue Tilley, som blev känd efter att den brittiska konstnären Lucian Freud avbildade…
The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of The Lewis Collection from Sotheby's…
