Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud. His paintings of her in the 1990s are now ...

Sue Tilley, the 60-something retired benefits supervisor and beloved sitter for Lucian Freud, has an uncanny meeting with her oil-on-canvas image before it heads to auction next month.

We all have one friend that gets us into trouble. For Sue Tilley, it was Leigh Bowery: part performance artist, part fashion designer, totally bonkers. Throughout the 1980s, Tilley would spend her ...

Benefits supervisor Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud three decades ago. Now a painting of her could fetch £35m - ‘Big girls can do well,’ says Tilley, who was painted by Freud in numerous works between 199 ...

London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist painter”—and was ...

Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’ - Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for ...

A highlight of this summer’s art season in London will be the sale of an extraordinary portrait by one of Britain’s greatest artists of the 20th century—Francis Bacon—depicting another—Lucian Freud.

Lucian Freud, "Boy on a Sofa" (1944). Pencil, charcoal and chalk on paper,15 x 17 in. (38 x 43.2 cm). Private Collection, courtesy of Susannah Pollen Ltd. (© The ...

Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated - and most private - artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with ...

Naked Portrait with Reflection artwork by Lucian Freud. “Lucian Freud: New Perspectives” can be seen at the Museo Thyssen, Madrid, through June 18. Lucian Freud talked a good picture. As with his ...