Product：Lucian Floy's ＂The Grand Indoor Arena is W11 (by Linhuatuo)＂

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Starting Price：USD 86,265,000

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Specification：185.4 x 198.1 cm

Auction Time：23-Jun-Sat

Auction Company：Christie

Freud's groundbreaking group portrait "The Grand Indoor Scene W11 (With Walto)" created in the early 1980s, with a height and width of nearly 2 meters, became the artist's largest painting at the time and was the first time he depicted more than two characters in the painting.
 

The painting depicts his then lover Celia Paul, daughter Bella, former partner Suzy Boyt's son Kai, and Suzy Boyt himself from left to right. In Freud's room on the upper floor of his studio in the West End of London, four people crowded together on the bed. Lying on the floor in front of the bed was Ali Boyt (son of Susie and Lucian), who was then his girlfriend's sister Star.
 

It is easy to see 'The Grand Interior Scene W11 (With Huato)' as a portrayal of the artist's chaotic private life, but as the title suggests, the work aims to respond to the paintings of classical masters, namely Jean Antoine Watteau's' The Clown '(now housed in the Musee Tenemisa in Madrid) in 1712. Freud moved the elegant banquet held by this French artist in a charming forest clearing into his rudimentary studio.
 

Every detail in the painting originates from Freud's keen gaze, with the pipes inside the house exposed and the walls only covered in plaster. Huatuo's forest bench became an iron bed frame that Freud bought for £ 7 in a second-hand home auction. The fountain in the original painting has turned into a twisted faucet, and the trees have been replaced with messy indoor plants.