Cork artist persuades famous Lucian Freud muse to pose nude with offer of £1m

Ian Brennan's 'On Painting Sue Tilley'. Picture: Ian Brennan

A Cork artist is challenging the art world to pay £1m (€1.15m) for a portrait of a woman who was previously the inspiration for Lucian Freud's work.

Ian Brennan will gift the proceeds from the painting’s sale at the world-famous Saatchi Gallery to writer and muse Sue Tilley who will pose naked for him for the first time since she sat for world-famous figurative artist Lucian Freud, grandson of pioneering neurologist Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.