‘Sue Tilley, the 60-something retired benefits supervisor and subject of British artist Lucian Freud’s monumental portray “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” (1996), has travelled from her residence in St Leonards-on-sea for an uncanny assembly together with her oil-on-canvas counterpart earlier than it heads to public sale subsequent month. The portrait, which Sotheby’s Europe chairman Olivier Barker says is “the magnum opus of Lucian’s work,” is estimated to fetch between £25 and £35 million ($33-45 million) on the Lewis Collection sale on 24 June. But how does it really feel to have your body up for public sale for tens millions of {dollars} and be purchased by non-public collectors? We requested her.’