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.
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“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）
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