Benefit Supervisor sleeping

[jake-the-peg]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/13/freu d.art/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

�17 million makes Lucian Freud the most expensive living artist.

If you were given it and not allowed to sell it would you hang it on the wall or gather dust in your attic?

[jno]

I like it. I suspect you'd need to give it a bit of space, not just because of the subject matter but because of the painting itself. But I'm a fan of old-fashioned figurative painting (I wouldn't have a Francis Bacon on my walls if you paid me) and this one looks like a beautiful portrait of a real person. If you haven't got the room, jake. I'll take it off your hands. (And no, I wouldn't sell it.)

Incidentally, this is the previous record holder. I love the colour, but give me the Freud every time.

http://www.artline.ro/admin/_files/newsannounc e/Koons-Hanging-Heart.jpg

[LoftyLottie]

It's a beautiful, sensitive picture and I like looking at it and would love to be able to see it properly. Amazing work of art. However, I would not like it on my wall. I would however, probably end up putting it in a room I do not use and visit it regularly to wonder at it. It really does need a very large space to be fully appreciated.

I know you have stated that selling it wouldn't be allowed but I have to say that I would sell it because my home doesn't do it justice (and the money would be very nice!).

[LoftyLottie]

I wouldn't give the previous record holder house room jno!

[DrFilth]

i think the model should go on a diet

[jno]

I'd buy several of the hearts and hang them from the trees in my garden, Lottie; I think they'd liven up back yard no end and give the birds a little something to cheer them up.

[China Doll]

I like it in. I wouldn't want it in my house and I'm not sure why it sold for as much as it did but it's a very well done painting. (I prefer the previous contenders work by light years and I think it could also be made in to some form of shoe). I think ithe sleeping supervisor would end up in the attic until that orange faced man came round and put it in an auction... And my what a shock we'd all get when the bidding on that baby finished! (I can dream :c)

[jake-the-peg]

Yeah, I feel much the same, there's something about Freud's painting that I can never quite put my finger on that gives it real presence and yes Bacon's another example, you can't ignore it but who'd want a screamimg pope above the fireplace?

We seem to have moved on from decorative art that can be used like that, I could live with a Pollock but it seems that now if a piece of art can be safely hung in a domestic environment it somehow degrades it.

Although maybe David Hockney's defied the trend

[woofgang]

Ha you can see that previous one hanging in department stores every february 14th!!

[woofgang]

I really do like that Lucian Freud though. He has painted it with real affection for the model...bit big for my house more's the pity. The other piece of art which I didn't expect to like but was moved by was the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" that was displayed in Trafalgar Square