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Woman Sleeping - Signed Print by Lucian Freud 1995 - MyArtBroker

Woman Sleeping
Signed Print

Lucian Freud

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Etching, 1995
Signed Print Edition of 36
H 82cm x W 68cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2020Christie's New York - United StatesWoman Sleeping - Signed Print
October 2015Phillips London - United KingdomWoman Sleeping - Signed Print
September 2014Sotheby's London - United KingdomWoman Sleeping - Signed Print
March 2014Sotheby's London - United KingdomWoman Sleeping - Signed Print
September 2012Sotheby's London - United KingdomWoman Sleeping - Signed Print
February 2012Christie's London - United KingdomWoman Sleeping - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Sue Tilley, aka Big Sue, was introduced to Lucian Freud by her friend - and fellow sitter - Leigh Bowery. Freud was so taken with Tilley's curvaceous form that he painted her four times, and alongside these paintings he explored her naked portrait through his preferred printing medium of etching. Woman Sleeping is related to his painting Sleeping By The Carpet With Lions, where Tilley is depicted sat asleep on a leather chair, with a blanket underneath her. In Woman Sleeping however, the chair and drapery is gone, leaving only her shapely body at the centre of a bare background.

As with many of Freud's other etchings in our Naked Portraits collection of his work, he rarely depicted extremely slim women. As he himself once confessed, "I have perhaps a predilection towards people of unusual or strange proportions which I don't want to over-indulge." Created in the 1990s, when "size zero" was the buzzword in women's popular culture, works like Woman Sleeping show Freud's confrontation of these senseless beauty standards.

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