Woman with an Arm Tattoo

Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1996

The sitter is Sue Tilley, chief benefits officer in a job centre although she is portrayed as an anonymous figure. The weight of her physicality is put under intense scrutiny, but there is also the contradictory sense of self-containment as she shuts her eyes and nonchalantly ignores the viewer's gaze.

• Medium: etching
• Dimensions: 70 x 91.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £16000 ( Total: £32,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: Marlborough Graphics

Provenance

David Case (former director, Marlborough Graphics, London).

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