Measuring art in money for a moment, we're startled to pass on word that Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping has set a new record price for a work by a living artist. The 1995 portrait sold for $33.6 million at Christie's in New York, the BBC reports.
"When we were painting it we didn't sit there going: 'I bet this'll be the biggest selling painting in the world'. It was just like one of his other pictures," Sue Tilley, the painting's ample subject, told the BBC.
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"It's a bit weird to think that a picture of me could be worth so much money."
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