What Recession?

Who would want this on his wall? And who would pay $25-35 million for the privilege?

The painting challenges modern notions of beauty and elicits a reaction from everyone who sees it. That may have been precisely the aim of Freud, who told London's Tate Gallery in 2002 that he wanted his paintings to "astonish, disturb, seduce, convince."

My concept of beauty hasn't been challenged. I knew this wasn't beauty before and I still know that.