BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Freuds sleeping nude paid 20

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Lucian Freud’s one-time muse was paid 20 a day and taken for lovely lunches, she told the BBC, as a painting of her looks set to sell for over 17m.

The 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, is expected to become the most expensive painting by a living artist when it is auctioned next month.