Benefits Supervisor Sleeping is a 1995 painting by Lucian Freud depicting an obese, naked woman. It is a portrait of Sue Tilley, weighted 127 kg[1], a Job Centre supervisor. Tilley is the author of a biography of Australian performer Leigh Bowery titled “Leigh Bowery The Life and Times of an Icon”.
The painting held the world record for the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist, of US$33.6 million (£17.2 million).[2] It was sold at Christie's in New York in May 2008 to Roman Abramovich.[3]