A painting of a naked JobCentre manager by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive picture by a living artist ever sold when it goes under the hammer next month. The 85-year-old artist's ...

Sue Tilley is best known as Lucian Freud‘s voluptuous model. When the nude portrait of her, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), hit the auction block in 2008, it sold for $33.6m (£17.2m), breaking ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's will sell a major work by British painter Lucian Freud in New York in May which the company expects to become the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist. ...

Lucian Freud was not one to rush. Sue Tilley, a morbidly obese British civil servant, posed for him for nine months, lying naked on a couch. “He was seeking perfection right up to the moment he ...