Art work hits $30m record

(01:23) Report

May 14 - A Lucien Freud painting scoops the world record for the highest price paid for a work by a living artist.

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping went for a whopping $33.6 million at Christie's in New York, shattering the previous record by $10 million set last November.

Paul Chapman reports.

Meet Freud's million dollar muse

  • Sue Tilley, a government worker in the UK, finds herself in the spotlight after her Lucien Freud portrait goes on the market with an estimated value of up to 35 million dollars (USD).

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