The former muse of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein today told how she sold two drawings he gave her to fund her music career.
Erica Wexler, 43, girlfriend in the mid-Nineties of the American artist famed for his comic-strip style, raised £150,000 to record her debut album.
New York-born Miss Wexler was 22 and Lichtenstein 70 when they met. The subject of his first nude in 1993, she now lives in Swindon.
The artist died in 1997 aged 73. His painting The Sleeping Girl is expected to achieve £31 million at Sotheby’s next week.
Miss Wexler said of the works she sold: “I cried. But the drawings have funded the making of this rather expressive album.”
The singer had a fledgling pop career in the Nineties under the name of Lluna, but suffered ME.
She lives with singer-songwriter Andy Partridge, of the band XTC, who nursed her back to health.
Wildflowers, the first single from her album, Sunlit Night, is due for release next month.
