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On 19/05/2008, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wonder if Abramovitch is in the market for some of my paintings? I
> 'd do it (a) to earn a living and (b) piss off the sanctimonious.
>
> Roger
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:33 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> More on BIG SUE: it seems the buyer was Roman Abramovitch, the 11
>> times billionaire owner of Chelsea football club. He also bought
>> Francis Bacon's Triptych for 44 million.
>>
>> So that's what art's about. Something to hang on the walls of the
>> suspiciously rich. Poets should be glad they're not appreciated. Their
>> fates could be much worse.
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
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> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
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