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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

Oil on canvas (1995) by Lucian Freud. Private collection. Depicts Sue Tilley sleeping on a yellow sofa. Sold at Christie's New York, May 2008, for $33.64 million — then highest price for a living artist at auction.

Scholarly Significance

Freud's most commercially significant work; 2008 Christie's result ($33.64 million) set living-artist world record.