Art market

His painting "After Cezanne" (1999-2000), notable for its unusual canvas shape, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $7.4 million and in May 2008 his picture "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (1995), a portrait of civil servant Sue Tilley, was sold by auction house Christie's in New York City for $33.6 million – the highest price ever at the time for a work by a living artist.

His portrait of a pregnant Kate Moss sold anonymously for $10 million in 2004, presumably by Kate Moss who wanted to keep it out of the hands of old perverts.

On 13 October 2011, his 1952 Boy's Head, a small portrait of Charlie Lumley, his neighbour, reached $4,998,088 at Sotheby's London Contemporary art evening auction, making it one of the highlights of the 2011 auction autumn season.

At a Christie's New York auction in 2015, Benefits Supervisor Resting sold for $56.2 million.

Conclusioin

Lucian Michael Freud was an impressive person, incredible painter and draftsman. He was a worthy representative of his famous family. His paintings presented the beauty in the most terrible and unusual form. Freud's challenges to the conventions of portraiture have inspired legions of figurative painters. The alternate model for male representation established by his groundbreaking series of portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery laid the groundwork for other socially transgressive figurative painters, among them John Currin and Eric Fischl. The impact of Freud's raw and unapologetic approach to the nude lives on in the work of Jenny Saville, Elizabeth Peyton and Luc Tuymans.