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Sultry nude of working class Londoner painted by Sigmund Freud’s grandson fetches $39M at auction

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Sultry nude of working class Londoner painted by Sigmund Freud’s grandson fetches $39M at auction

By Jared Downing Published June 25, 2026, 7:16 p.m. ET

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Talk about a Freudian slip.

A painting by the grandson of the famed psychologist Sigmund Freud featuring a London clerk in the buff sold for a mind-bending $39 million at auction Wednesday — and the curvaceous model couldn’t be happier.

“Mona Lisa wasn’t alive when she became famous — but I am,” Sue Tilley, 69, told the Wall Street Journal after “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s London.

Sue Tilley, 69, poses in front of a Freud portrait she modeled for in 1995. 4
Sue Tilley, 69, poses in front of a Freud portrait she modeled for in 1995. Guy Bell/Shutterstock

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