{"id":421,"date":"2008-05-14T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/artist-lucian-freud-benefits-porcine-payday-christies\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T01:15:02","slug":"artist-lucian-freud-benefits-porcine-payday-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/14\/artist-lucian-freud-benefits-porcine-payday-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Lucian Freud Benefits Porcine Payday @ Christie’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the AP via Yahoo News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Art: Fat woman nude breaks auction record, sells for $33M in New York<\/h1>\n

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 3:21 PM<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

La maja gorda: ‘Benefits supervisor sleeping’ on display at Christie’s before its sale.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Christie’s<\/a>\u00a0auction house spokeswoman says a painting by British artist\u00a0Lucian Freud<\/a>\u00a0has broken a global record for living artists by fetching more than $33 million at a\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0sale.<\/p>\n

Spokeswoman Sara Fox<\/a>\u00a0says an anonymous buyer won Tuesday’s bidding for Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.” The life-size 1995 portrait depicts a nude woman sleeping on a worn-out sofa.<\/p>\n

At more than $33.6 million, the price easily topped the $23.6 million record for living artists. It was set in November by\u00a0Jeff Koons<\/a>‘ “Hanging Heart” sculpture.<\/p>\n

The 85-year-old Freud is the grandson of psychoanalyst\u00a0Sigmund Freud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s sale also included “Studies for Self Portrait,” by British artist\u00a0Francis Bacon<\/a>. Fox says it sold for more than $28 million.<\/p>\n

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from the AP via Yahoo News Art: Fat woman nude breaks auction record, sells for $33M in New York THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 3:21 PM Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP\/Getty Images La maja gorda: ‘Benefits supervisor sleeping’ on display at Christie’s before its sale. A\u00a0Christie’s\u00a0auction house spokeswoman says a painting by British artist\u00a0Lucian Freud\u00a0has broken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}