"Naked man with sock" - After Lucian Freud

R1 *no reserve* auction

For the discerning, contemporary collector - a magnificent reproduction painting of one of the most sought-after, highest ever paid living artists - Lucian Freud.

This reproduction painting, dimentions 690 x 810 mm aims to capture Freud's particular viewpoint on realism:

"I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

Related article (One of Freud's recent works)

Online article from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7398949.stm)

Freud work sets new world record

Sue Tilley posed for Freud over a four-year period in the early 1990s A life-sized Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman has set a new world record price for a work by a living artist. The 1995 portrait, titled Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, sold for $33.6m (£17.2m) at Christie's in New York. The previous record was held by Jeff Koons' Hanging Heart, which fetched $23.5m (£12.1m) last November. The Freud work, sold at auction for the first time, shows Jobcentre supervisor Sue Tilley, now 51, asleep on a sofa. Christie's described it as a "bold and imposing example of the stark power of Freud's realism". Ms Tilley, nicknamed "Big Sue", was introduced to the painter, now 85, by the Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery.

The author of this reproduction painting currently studies architecture full time and lives in Johannesburg with his cheeky cat Joey and a loving partner.

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Postage (buyer's cost) to be confirmed upon conclusion of auction, courier service available on request, else SAPO ordinary parcel post costs will be in the region of R 50 (Painting rolled up, tubed). Insurance at 2% of item value.

Item may be collected, in JHB, North Western Suburds.