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Lucien Freud's "Sleeping Nude" is expected to break the record for most expensive painting sold while an artist is still alive. The painting is expected to fetch $35 Million at auction.

The model who posed for the painting was paid about $40.00 an hour.
uroborus8

18 responses // Record breaking art

  • ha,

    A girl from my school just got disqualified from a statewide art competition for doing a nude self-portrait though she was supposed to win first place and another was diqualified for a nude sculpture of a pregnant torso. Guess who was head of the competition. The Virginian pilot newspaper. Michelangelo would be appreciative that someone appreciates a nude work
    addctd2whticnsay
  • I wouldn't pay 35 dollars to have a giant fat chick on my wall
    StuntBunny
  • addctd2whticnsay, you should encourage your friend to contact the ACLU. Censorship of art because it contains nudity is against the law.
    uroborus8
  • StuntBunny
    Museums would want it for historical value.
    Koichi_Sono
  • ew. That couch is hideous. lol.
    LaWingman
  • Ugh!
    VoyagerFilms
  • And why is it so expensive?? Out of all things..Geez
    ... On second thought.. It does represent America to the fullest.

    Supa size.
    colorfulme
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Freud
    Image...
    Actually he's British. And he's often considered to be the greatest living British painter. His work forces us to look at the human body in new ways, just as his Grandfather, Sigmund Freud, challenged us to think about the human mind in new ways.

    Lucien Freud's still controversial works place him among the most radical of English painters. Along with Francis Bacon, he helped to form the art movement known as the School of London. His early work is even often associated with Surrealism.

    Check out his work!
    celestialceiling
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH38lLWRS6I
    A video slideshow on Youtube of his work
    celestialceiling
  • I think its wierd that she isnt half as detailed as the couch is.
    B3rt
  • It's good to know there are complete idiots out there who just don't know how to waste their money.
    stardate
  • It's sad that so many people aren't interested in appreciating Art. Maybe it's the decline of public education. Maybe it's the passing of an age in which people found meaning in Art.

    Lucien Freud is a brilliant artist. He has a great command of his medium. The fact that the subject of the painting is not a conventional image of a woman may be significant in drawing the high auction price, or it may not be. Before you dismiss the image, look at other examples of Freud's work. They're actually very traditional figurative realist pieces.

    Try this: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/8837036086.01.LZZZZZZ...
    jsburman
  • while lucien freud is a great painter , canvas is passe - damien hirst is the greatest living british artist .
    malathion
  • Image...
    I'd rather have Phoebe Buffet's "Gladys" in my house.
    saverio
  • "Scabs & spots
    Ms Tilley has modelled for Lucian Freud on several occasions. She recalled a time overhearing a critique of her in another Freud painting.

    "The man was so mortified. It was the Whitechapel Gallery. There'd been a big exhibition on and my painting had just been finished, so they put it in for the last week.

    "So I went with my friends to see it, and there was this man - you know those so-called art lecturers who think they know everything - 'yes, this painting was painted because Lucian hated women, so he put the dog high up and the woman was lying on the floor. The poor thing with all her scabs and spots'.

    "I started laughing. He was going 'excuse me madam' and I said, 'well actually that's me'.

    "Poor man, he thought was going to fall through a hole in the floor.

    "He said: 'oh but you're really pretty in real life.'""
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    "Unlike Andy Warhol, who said "people go on asking about my work[s], they don't realise that they are exactly as they see; there is nothing behind them," I want there to be everything behind mine.

    Real bodies, then, are the motor to Freud's imagination, he would have us believe. They drive his realism toward extravagance—that is to say, to a wandering beyond normal bounds. To term Freud's art "realism" is to associate it with the aesthetic of Courbet, and that in many ways makes sense. Throughout his long career, he too has dwelt on the substance of things rather than on accidents of light: moreover, the Frenchman's famous retort to idealists—"Show me an angel and I'll paint you one"—foreshadows Freud's already mentioned declaration that he only puts in pictures what is "actually there in front of me." But the actualities in front of Freud—both the bodies and the pictures themselves—have strangely and inexorably inflated during his career's later stages."

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  • Thanks, BlueBerry.

    Painting is anything but passe. But it does take a refined eye. Maybe this is a good starting place for the digital generation. Frankly, it's not necessarily the medium that interests me. It's the idea and the effect of the artistic interpretation. But paint and canvas is just so supple!
    jsburman
  • hey uroborus8,

    Thanks for the info. Please go to the virginianpilot.com and read the whole story. The competition was called Student Gallery. Local artists have banded together and gave the girls 1000 dollar scholarships(what they would have won if they weren't disqualified) and their works are being displayed at Chrysler Museum in VA. There has been a tremendous controversy in the "Hampton Roads" about this, but even better, enormous support has been given to the girls. But the fact that a newspaper would censor something is beyond me.
    addctd2whticnsay
  • Whatever you think of it, "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" sold for $34 million in the end, making it the most expensive work ever by a living artist.
    Simon_S

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