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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is a 1995 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Lucian Freud depicting a naked woman lying on a couch. It is a portrait of Sue Tilley, a Jobcentre supervisor. Tilley is the author of a biography of the Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled Leigh Bowery, The Life and Times of an Icon. Tilley was introduced ...
Jul 12, 2022 · Freud paints Tilley at her most vulnerable and when we are all at our most vulnerable — when we sleep. And she is sleeping upon a couch, a most suggestive reference and one made with a wink.
Feb 1, 2021 · The more aggressively “grotesque” of Freud’s nudes, like “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,” of 1995—the subject, Sue Tilley, was indeed an insurance-benefits supervisor by day, though ...
Jul 22, 2011 · Tilley, who went on to become something of an art world celebrity, was the sitter for Freud's painting Benefits Advisor Sleeping which became the highest selling painting by a living artist when it sold for $33.64 million in 2008.
May 14, 2018 · Lucian Freud’s paintings of benefits supervisor Sue Tilley set records at auction houses. She tells Cameron Laux what it was like to sit for one of Britain’s greatest artists. One of Lucian...
Jan 16, 2012 · Nor was it a matter of commercial success, though it was in 2008 that Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) fetched the highest-ever auction price for a painting by a living...
In 2008 Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), a portrait of civil servant Sue Tilley, sold for $33.6 million – the highest price ever at the time for a work by a living artist. At a Christie's New York auction in 2015, Benefits Supervisor Resting sold for $56.2 million.
