Negócios de arte

A painting by Lucian Freud of a horribly fat woman lying on a misshapen sofa has been sold in New York for a staggering $33.6 million (£17.2 million), becoming the world’s most expensive painting by a living artist.

Predictably, the event has been celebrated as proof not only of Freud’s genius, but also that the painting, entitled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, is one of the most important of our age.

[via: Daily Mail]

Na semana passada num leilão da Christie´s de Nova Iorque,  Roman Abramovich, foi o misterioso comprador do quadro de Lucian Freud – “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” -,  por cerca de 21,33 milhões de euros e acabou por dar a Freud, neto do pai da psicanálise, o título de pintor vivo mais caro do mundo.
Mas os recordes feitos pelos investimentos de Abramovich no mercado da arte não ficam por aqui. De acordo com o “The Art Newspaper”, o milionário russo comprou, num leilão da Sotheby’s, também na semana passada, um tríptico de Francis Bacon por 55,4 milhões de euros, que se tornou a obra mais cara jamais vendida em leilão.

[via: Público]

Sobre a modelo:

Sue Tilley, the model for the picture, was paid £3 an hour to pose for Freud. The contrast between the real Sue Tilley and the Freud version is striking. Muse: Freud met Ms Tilley in a nightclub 20 years ago and spent nine months painting her.

Photographs show she is a person of pleasant appearance.

[Daily Mail]