Benefits Supervisor Sleeping – Lucien Freud – $33.6 million
The highest price paid at auction for a work of art by a living artist, and he’s one of my favorites!
Can’t really find a larger version of the painting, will add it once it surfaces. I love seeing his brushwork.
Here’s a video from the sale:
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Wow cool painting..I like it..but i can’t afford buying it..imagine $33.6 million just for this kind of painting..
Pat » May 17th, 2009 at 10:09 pm