Freud painting sells for 17Mil

[Lucy]

Must be like looking in a mirror for you.

Bada-boom!

You have me confused with your girlfriend again, sas.

[Moscow Mule]

Mind you, 17M is taking the urine a bit. I wonder how much the corpulent lady got in sitting (lounging?) fees?
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In addition to her £20 a day fees, she's also got a signed full size print (according to the BBC this morning) which bailiffs refused to take at one point, instead preferring her TV and a kettle.

[Lucy]

She is most likely a regular at the pub, he tends to paint people he knows or has befriended. Theres something quite renaissance about his style at the same time he's very contemporary which I like.

[hyperD]

I wonder how much I can get for this graphic artwork?

Plumper

[Churchill]

I wonder how much I can get for this graphic artwork?

Plumper

I feel sick now...

[wobbegong]

The 1995 Freud painting depicts rotund London benefits supervisor Sue Tilley, now 51, sleeping on a dilapidated sofa.

Ms Tilley, now a Jobcentre manager, said: "I'm thrilled. I still can't believe such a bizarre thing has happened to me. It hasn't sunk in properly."

Unlike all those cakes and pies, eh Sue?

[ferret]

Is a superb painting, could say it was a work of real beauty. Imagine not wanting that in your living room! Read that it was coming up for sale and in the article the subject said about going to see it and some art critic slagging it off - in that BBC article, well done Mr Robin:

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.'"

[Lucy]

Is a superb painting, could say it was a work of real beauty. Imagine not wanting that in your living room! Read that it was coming up for sale and in the article the subject said about going to see it and some art critic slagging it off - in that BBC article, well done Mr Robin:

I'm sorry ferret, for all of it's artistic merit I could never call it beautiful. Maybe it's because, as a woman, if I ever had a body like that, I would probably never get laid again...except by weirdos.

[oracleslave]

Is a superb painting, could say it was a work of real beauty. Imagine not wanting that in your living room! Read that it was coming up for sale and in the article the subject said about going to see it and some art critic slagging it off - in that BBC article, well done Mr Robin:

A superb painting, yes. A work of beauty, yes. The subject is ugly though.

[bogeyman]

I'm sorry ferret, for all of it's artistic merit I could never call it beautiful. Maybe it's because, as a woman, if I ever had a body like that, I would probably never get laid again...except by weirdos.

Tut tut Lucy m'dear!

Are you suggesting that lovers of the Rubenesque form are 'weirdos'?

While I prefer not to have to roll my partners in flour prior to coitus, I don't think the men who do are necessarily weirdos.

Let's face it. This is an increasingly common body type in the UK's female population.