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Sue Tilley (born 1957), also known as Big Sue, is a British artist's model and writer. She modelled for painter Lucian Freud.
Born in south London,[1] Tilley worked for performance artist and club promoter Leigh Bowery as a cashier at his "Taboo" night club. Bowery introduced her to Lucian Freud in 1990 and she began posing for him the following year. During this time, she was also a full-time benefits supervisor at the Charing Cross jobcentre, a state-operated employment agency, and she eventually became manager there.[2]
Freud painted several large nude portraits of Tilley, the first being Evening in the Studio (en) (1993).[3] Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, painted in 1995, was sold at auction in 2008[4] for £17 million ($33.6 million US) in New York City.[5] In 2015, the 1994 painting Benefits Supervisor Resting[6] sold for £35 million ($56 million US).[7] A fourth painting Sleeping by the Lion Carpet was painted in 1996.[8] Freud also produced a number of etchings featuring Tilley, including Woman with an Arm Tattoo which Tilley sold in 2005.[9]
In 1997, she published Leigh Bowery: The life and times of an Icon, a biography.[10]
From September 2000 to March 2001, Chief Curator Rolf Lauter at Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt could realise the only overview exhibition of Freud's works in a German museum in close cooperation with the artist. Both the catalog and the invitation as well as the poster included Freud's painting Sleeping by the Lion Carpet[11] from 1995/96 with Sue Tilley.
In 2015, she had a solo show of paintings and drawings in a London gallery. She did a collaboration with Fendi to decorate luxury clothes and bags with her pictures of desk lamps, bottle openers, banana skins, cups of coffee.[12]
In September 2021 Tilley was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 show Saturday Live.[13]
Références[modifier | modifier le code]
- « Leigh Bowery: The Life And Times Of An Icon By Sue Tilley Now Available As An Ebook From Open Road Integrated Media »
- « The ballad of Big Sue », sur the Guardian,
- « Evening in the Studio, 1993 - Lucian Freud - WikiArt.org », sur www.wikiart.org (consulté le )
- « Lucian Freud portrait of naked benefits supervisor set to sell for £17m », sur the Guardian,
- « Roman Abramovich 'revealed as Freud and Bacon buyer' », sur www.telegraph.co.uk
- (en) « Lucian Freud | Benefits Supervisor Resting (1994) | Artsy », sur www.artsy.net (consulté le )
- (en) Cameron Laux, « Lucian Freud and Sue Tilley: The story of an unlikely muse », BBC, (lire en ligne)
- (en) Michael Glover, « Great Works: Sleeping by the Lion Carpet 1995-6 (228.6cm x 121.3cm), Lucian Freud », The Independent, (lire en ligne)
- (en) « Freud tattoo model etching sold », {{Article}} : paramètre «
périodique» manquant, (lire en ligne) - « Leigh Bowery: A life less ordinary » [archive du ], sur The Independent,
- (en) « Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits. Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2000/2001. », sur www.worldcat.org (consulté le )
- (en) Cameron Laux, « Lucian Freud and Sue Tilley: The story of an unlikely muse », sur www.bbc.com (consulté le )
- « BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Paul Merson »
External links[modifier | modifier le code]
- "Interviewing Sue Tilley", a long 2023 interview with Tilley