Nude painting fetches $33.6m @ auction

[dancing-loon]

Freud work sets new world record

Sue Tilley posed for Freud over a four-year period in the early 1990s

A life-sized Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman has set a new world record price for a work by a living artist.
The 1995 portrait, titled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, sold for $33.6m (£17.2m) at Christie's in New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7398949.stm
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

 

[darkbeaver]

I'm going to start painting again. Please someone explain it to me. Is it the colour? Is it the light and the colour? Is it the texture or is it the detail on the dust balls under the coach, what is it?

 

[dancing-loon]

I'm going to start painting again. Please someone explain it to me. Is it the colour? Is it the light and the colour? Is it the texture or is it the detail on the dust balls under the coach, what is it?

It's the rolls on the couch!

 

[dancing-loon]

It's the rolls on the couch!

Naw... on second look, it's the lumps and bumps neatly arranged!

 

[darkbeaver]

Naw... on second look, it's the lumps and bumps neatly arranged!

She's a little chubby DL but I bet she has a nice personality.

 

[karrie]

I'm going to start painting again. Please someone explain it to me. Is it the colour? Is it the light and the colour? Is it the texture or is it the detail on the dust balls under the coach, what is it?

Perhaps it's the realism? The frank honesty? The lack of apology on her part for existing which, these days, is lacking in most overweight women?

 

[dancing-loon]

She's a little chubby DL but I bet she has a nice personality.

Not just that... she is cuddly, too!;-);-)

 

[dancing-loon]

Perhaps it's the realism? The frank honesty? The lack of apology on her part for existing which, these days, is lacking in most overweight women?

I hope she got at least a couple of millions for her frank honesty.

 

[darkbeaver]

Perhaps it's the realism? The frank honesty? The lack of apology on her part for existing which, these days, is lacking in most overweight women?

The subjects attributes are not in the least putting the bug up me plumbing, the price is revolting opulence dropped like a soiled hanky, a real sign of these times and of things to come.

What makes you think she's overweight Karrie?

 

[karrie]

What makes you think she's overweight Karrie?

general rule for all genders..... once you can no longer see your own pubic hair without having to move flesh, you've reached the realm of overweight.

 

[darkbeaver]

I went and checked I'm still O/K I have to lean ahead just a tiny bit though.

 

[karrie]

I went and checked I'm still O/K I have to lean ahead just a tiny bit though.

lol. well, I'm glad we got that covered.

 

[mt_pockets1000]

Look at the way the hussy is cupping her right boob....very suggestive and enticing. *BOING*.

 

[missile]

The price works out to a little over 1 million per pound:smile:

 

[dancing-loon]

The price works out to a little over 1 million per pound:smile:

What? 1 boob = 33 pounds??8O

 

[Praxius]

From what I saw in the news about this last night, the reason why this painting was picked and got the high price it did, was moreso for the level of detail the artist put into the painting itself, not exactly for what the painting was about or meaning.

It's certainly not something I'd pay that much for, let alone put up on the wall in my living room, but to each their own.