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 ...

Legendary painter Lucian Freud was prolific both as an artist and as a womanizer who fathered two daughters in his first marriage, as well as 12 illegitimate children by four mistresses.

The piece was one of four portraits Freud made of the ample-figured Sue Tilley ... Resting by Lucian Freud (Photo: Graham Barclay) She is now launching her own career as an artist after being ...

and those Lucian Freud nudes of her, one of which sold for a jaw-dropping £35.8million. Freud’s painting of Sue, Sleeping By The Lion Carpet, will be seen in Tate Britain’s new blockbuster ...

In 2008, this striking portrait of Sue Tilley, a British civil ... very carefully," said curator Michael Auping. He met Lucian Freud a few years before the artist's death in 2011 while preparing ...

When Lucian Freud ... famous subjects posing for the artist is to realize that Freud couldn't resist piling yet more heft on the already colossal breasts of Sue Tilley in Benefits Supervisor ...

An auction of works by the late Lucian Freud has resulted in a record-breaking sale of a print by the artist. Entitled Eli ... His 1996 etching of a sitter called Sue Tilley, entitled Woman ...

In August 1935, the future painter Lucian Freud travelled ... and fleshy picture of Sue Tilley which sold for £17m to Roman Abramovich in 2008 (a record price for a painting by a living artist ...

On the evening of 13 May, a large painting of a naked woman sitting on a sofa by the British artist Lucian Freud ... though, Freud’s paintings of Big Sue do not seem so wayward.

Did Lucian Freud disavow a nude self-portrait because he was embarrassed by it? That could be the case, according to the Guardian, which reports that after an unnamed Swiss collector bought the ...

the benefits supervisor Sue Tilley. At the same time he produced an impressive body of etchings – again, from life – which have been shown integrated with his paintings. Lucian Michael Freud ...