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• `Big Sue' proud of big price tag for painting 肥裸女畫像價格可望破紀錄

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  A woman who posed naked for British artist Lucian Freud has revealed she was paid US$39 (NT$1,180), and the resulting painting is expected to become the most expensive work by a living artist.Sue Tilley said she had been delighted to be the inspiration for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping in 1995, which is set to become the most expensive painting by a living artist when it is sold in New York next month.

  Art experts expect the painting of a fleshy woman reclining on a sofa to fetch up to US$33.5 million dollars (NT$1 billion) when it goes under the hammer in New York in May.

  Tilley, nicknamed Big Sue, joked she was the first nude pin-up to grace the front page of the Financial Times newspaper, which carried a photograph of the painting.

  

  Employees hold Lucian Freud’s painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping during a photo opportunity at Christie’s in London on April 11, 2008. 十一日在倫敦佳士得拍賣公司，員工們扶著盧西安．佛洛伊德的畫作《沉睡的救濟金管理人》供人拍攝。 照片：美聯社

  PHOTO : AP

  “I can’t quite believe it, to be honest,” she said. “You know, I didn’t have any idea it was going to happen, so I’m a bit in shock.

  “I was reading on the Internet... all the things about it. And I was just going ‘Oh my god,’ I could hardly believe it was about me.

  “Half the time I don’t really think it’s me. But then this morning I was looking at it again and I was going: ‘that’s my funny little face!’”

  Tilley, who now manages a job center in London, said she was introduced to Freud by a friend.

  Freud, the 85-year-old grandson of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was born in Berlin. His family fled Germany as the Nazis rose to power, and he became a British citizen.

  He has said: “I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.”

  (AFP)

  一位曾擔任英國藝術家盧西安．佛洛伊德人體模特兒的女士透露，她當時拿到的報酬是三十九美元（新台幣一千一百八十元），而這幅裸女畫預計將成為在世藝術家最高價的作品。

  蘇．蒂莉表示，她很開心能夠成為一九九五年那幅《沉睡的救濟金管理人》裸女畫的靈感泉源，這幅畫下個月將在紐約拍賣，預估成交價將創下在世藝術家作品的新紀錄。

  藝術鑑賞家認為，這幅一個肥胖女子躺臥在沙發上的畫作，五月在紐約拍賣會上的成交價可望上探三千三百五十萬美元（新台幣十億元）。

  綽號「大蘇」的蒂莉戲稱自己是第一個登上《金融時報》頭版的性感裸體模特兒，該報刊登了一張那幅裸畫的照片。

  「老實說，我實在不敢相信，」她說：「你知道，我從沒想過會發生這種事，我有點吃驚。」

  「我在網路上看到…所有相關報導，我只能直呼『我的天哪』，我不敢相信自己竟是報導中的主角。」

  「起初我半信半疑，但是今天早上我又看了一遍後心想：『那正是我那滑稽可笑的小臉！』」

  現在在倫敦擔任就業中心主管的蒂莉說，她是透過朋友介紹才成為佛洛伊德的模特兒。

  現年八十五歲的佛洛伊德是心理分析學先驅西格蒙德．佛洛伊德的孫子，他出生於柏林，但在納粹掌權時，舉家逃離德國，成為英國公民。

  他曾說過：「我描繪人像，不是畫他們的樣子，也不是完全忽略他們的樣貌啦，我在乎的是他們當時的狀態。」

  （法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）

  For your information

  TODAY'S WORDS 今日單字

  1. inspiration n. 靈感 (ling2 gan3) 例: What was your inspiration for the song? (你創作這首歌的靈感來源是什麼？) 2. recline v.t./v.i. 斜倚 (xie2 yi3) 例: He was reclining in his chair when the boss walked over. (老闆經過時，他正仰躺在椅子上。) 3. pin-up n. 美女 (mei2 nü3)，妖艷女子 (yao1 yan4 nü2 zi3) 例: Did you hear that Neil is dating a pin-up! He must be really excited. (你聽說奈爾在和一個性感美女約會嗎！他一定超開心的。) 4. psychoanalyst n. 心理分析學家 (xin1 li3 fen1 xi1 xue2 jia1) 例: Nathan's father is a trained psychoanalyst. (納森的父親是一位受過專業訓練的心理分析學家。)

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  SAY WHAT? 說說看

  under the hammer 被拍賣 Something that is under the hammer is for sale at auction. For example, “The confiscated vehicles will go under the hammer next week, and I’m hoping to get a good deal on a car,” or “The baseball went under the hammer last week and sold for a record one million dollars.” Another idiom with the word hammer is to hammer something home, which means to say something clearly and with force. For example, “Ron decided to use this chart to hammer his point home.” 若說某物品「under the hammer」，表示該物在拍賣會上待售，例如：「這些被沒收的車輛下週將被拍賣，我希望能便宜買到一台」或是「這顆棒球上週被拍賣，並破紀錄以一百萬元售出」。 另一個有「hammer」這個字的片語是「hammer something home」，意思是強迫式地詳盡說明某事 ，例如：「榮恩決定用這個圖表來強力推銷他 的構想」。

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  OUT LOUD 對話練習

  Marcus: What did you do last time you saw Richard? Matt: Not much. We just played cards and chewed the fat. Marcus: What did you talk about? Matt: Mostly we just talked about Richard’s new girlfriend. He said he’s already had enough of her. Marcus: He’s only been going out with her for three weeks! But I guess that’s longer than he made it with the last one. 馬克斯：你上次和理察碰面時你們做了些什麼？ 麥特：沒什麼，就是打打牌、閒聊而已。 馬克斯：你們聊什麼？ 麥特：我們大多在聊理察的新女友，他說他已經受夠她了。 馬克斯：他們才交往三個星期耶！但我猜這已經破了他跟前任女友的紀錄了。 chew the fat　閒聊 To chew the fat is to have a friendly conversation with someone. For example, “I don’t want too crazy of a night. Let’s just sit around and chew the fat.” 「chew the fat」就是和某人親切地聊天的意思，例如：「我今晚不想要玩得太瘋，我們坐下來聊聊天就好」。
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