Benefits Supervisor Sleeping by Lucian Freud... the poster child for Art Excess ?

So.. the Spring Contemporary Auctions are about to begin.. and the biggest question in what's left of MAO's mind.. is : Will "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" by Lucian Freud...become the new poster child for Art Excess in 2008 ?

Tonight at 8pm.. we will know the answer! Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale. We checked out the painting first hand.. It's big and it's beautiful..and it's nothing but flesh!

Lot 37, Lucian Freud (b. 1922)
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
oil on canvas
59 5/8 x 86¼ in. (151.3 x 219 cm.)
Painted in 1995

This heavyweight painting with a huge pre-sale estimate of $25,000,000 to $35,000,000, has the potential to break the all time record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist's work, crushing the Jeff Koons' Hanging Heart which currently holds the insane record at $23,500,000. Now that's PHAT!

Go Lucian go!

Here's a story in the Telegraph with some more details about this curvaceous painting.

Comments

[aurix]

yeah.. it's lucian over koons any day. keeping my fingers crossed.

[aurix]

$33,641,000

[Mike @ MAO]

Thanks Aurix..
So it looks like funally a real life painter has the top record for a while!

I have to say.. the "Fat Sue" painting was amazing!

Christies set 8 new auction records last night! And I think only 3 lots of the 57 total, failed to sell..

So the night was a strong success for the Contemporary art world.

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[Brittney Scott]

Seems to be a creative picture.