Nice one, Max.
I suppose if you mixed that up with John E Cash and made it 'A Boy
Named Big Sue' you'd have a truly mind-boggling take on Revelation.
2008/5/14 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
> It's rather like going to an old-fashioned British seaside
>> resort to discover at the beach a portly lady out of picture postcard,
>> in a floral dress, swinging a huge handbag, emerging wringing wet from
>> the waves calling 'Yoo-hoo, it's me, your Auntie Mabel. THAT WHICH I
>> AM I AM. I'm over here'
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
> or Big Sue:
>
> http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=8298490
>
> - shows her picture:
>
> A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping
> broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold
> for more than £17 million, Christie's said.
>
> The masterpiece, which was sold by a private European collector, fetched
> 33.6 million dollars (£17.2 million) in the sale at New York's Rockefeller
> Centre.
>
> Benefits Supervisor Sleeping beat the previous world auction record for a
> work by a living artist, held by Jeff Koons' Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold),
> which fetched 23.5 million dollars (£11.3 million) last year.
>
> 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."
>
> Asked how she felt about posing nude, she said: "At first, I was a little
> bit embarrassed but after a while I just got used to it and it became a
> completely normal thing to do, like going to the doctor."
>
> She also said reports claiming that she had weighed 20st when she posed for
> the painting were inaccurate and said she did not know how much she weighed
> today. "I never weigh myself because I can't be bothered," she said.
>
> Asked if she would ever sit for another artist, Ms Tilley said it was "hard
> to know where to go" as she had "started with the very best".
>
> It was the first time Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which was the
> highlight of Christie's New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale,
> had appeared at auction.
>
> The 85-year-old British artist first painted "Big Sue" in Evening In The
> Studio (1993), for which Ms Tilley had to lie in an uncomfortable pose on a
> bare floor. Freud then bought the ragged sofa depicted in the 1995 painting
> for Ms Tilley, who was introduced to Freud by Australian performance artist
> Leigh Bowery, to lie on.
>
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David Bircumshaw
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