Rolling back the years to a Freudian slip
ONCE the most expensive painting by a living artist ever sold, Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, has been recreated. Last night Charlotte Colbert unveiled her version, created in Freud’s Holland Park Studio and now exhibited at arts space Unit 9 in Shoreditch.
Colbert explained that she tempted Sue Tilley
THE Londoner was at the Ambassadors Theatre last night for the opening of Beginning. Guests included presenter Myleene Klass and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond but did anyone warn Owen Jones — seated in the stalls — that he featured in it?
At one point, the actors talk about social media and Danny (Sam Troughton), announces that his gran loves Twitter, and tweets Jones with the hashtag #nantweets. Fame at last. back for a sitting. “Sue went back 20 years to pose for me in the same position she had done for Lucian,” Colbert told The Londoner. “She was lying down and I was re-adjusting her position, and she said, ‘This reminds me of Lucian’s creepy old hands coming to re-adjust my breast’.” Perhaps it was a Freudian slip.