Lucian Freud

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Sussex woman recalls posing for Lucian Freud after £25m art sale

BBC News 25 Jun 2026

Sue Tilley remembers champagne lunches and Freud .

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This Lucian Freud belongs on the compost

The Spectator 11 Jun 2026

This was a double disaster, as the site was also a small but important art school where Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling had studied ... ‘Man with a Black Scarf’, 1939, apparently by Lucian Freud.

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Early portrait denied by Lucian Freud shown for first time after authentication

The Guardian 01 Jun 2026

An early portrait by Lucian Freud, which the artist denied was his for years, is to be exhibited for the ...

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Kate Moss and Lucian Freud: The strange, beautiful story of art’s most unlikely partnership

The Independent 31 May 2026

They were a true art-world odd couple.

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When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her ...

The Maryville Daily Times 30 May 2026

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud. His paintings of her in the 1990s are now famous, and very valuable. “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet,” considered one of Freud’s masterpieces, is up for ....

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‘Big girls can do well’ says Lucian Freud muse as portrait could fetch £35m

AOL 29 May 2026

Lucian Freud’s final painting in his series depicting benefits supervisor Sue Tilley is estimated to fetch up to £35m at auction – although the subject admits that she’s “never got any money” herself.

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‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

London Evening Standard 29 May 2026

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of Sotheby’s The Lewis Collection in June ... .

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Subject of Lucian Freud painting set to fetch �35million at auction says: 'It shows that ...

The Daily Mail 29 May 2026

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of The Lewis Collection from Sotheby's in June ....

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Britain Lucian Freud Model

Beaumont Enterprise 29 May 2026

Sue Tilley, a model for British painter Lucian Freud, poses in front of Freud's painting of her, titled "Sleeping by the Lion Carpet" during an interview in Sotheby's auction house in London, Thursday, May 28, 2026 ....

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Lucian Freud painting of Sue Tilley could fetch $47 million

ABC News 29 May 2026

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud ... .

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When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch US$47 million

CTV 29 May 2026

... when she met the artist Lucian Freud.

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Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’

London Evening Standard 29 May 2026

Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for approximately nine months as he painted Sleeping By The Lion Carpet ... .

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Lucian Freud portrait of his muse Sue Tilley could sell for £35m

The Independent 29 May 2026

Tributes have poured in for ...

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Derek Jacobi on playing Lucian Freud

The Spectator 29 May 2026

Lucian Freud almost had a second career in the cinema ... “Would those wrinkles, those eyebrows, make a good picture?” ‘Naked Portrait 2002’ by Lucian Freud. © The Lucian Freud Archive.

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Sussex woman recalls posing for Lucian Freud after £25m art sale

This Lucian Freud belongs on the compost

Early portrait denied by Lucian Freud shown for first time after authentication

Kate Moss and Lucian Freud: The strange, beautiful story of art’s most unlikely partnership

When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her ...

‘Big girls can do well’ says Lucian Freud muse as portrait could fetch £35m

‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

Subject of Lucian Freud painting set to fetch �35million at auction says: 'It shows that ...

Britain Lucian Freud Model

Lucian Freud painting of Sue Tilley could fetch $47 million

When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch US$47 million

Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’

Lucian Freud portrait of his muse Sue Tilley could sell for £35m

Derek Jacobi on playing Lucian Freud

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