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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is a 1995 oil on canvas painting by Lucian Freud depicting an obese, naked woman lying on a couch. It is a portrait of Sue Tilley, a Job Centre supervisor, then weighing about . Tilley is the author of a biography of the Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled "Leigh Bowery, The Life and Times of an Icon". Tilley was introduced to Freud by Bowery, who was already modelling for him. Freud painted a number of large portraits of her around the period 1994–96
employment agency, and she eventually became manager there.
Freud painted several large nude portraits of Tilley, the first being ' (1993). "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping", painted in 1995, was sold at auction in 2008 for £17 million ($33.6 million US) in New York City. In 2015, the 1994 painting ' sold for £35.8 million ($56.2million US). A fourth painting "Sleeping by the Lion Carpet" was painted in 1996. Freud also produced a number of etchings featuring