Gisele & Kate to Be Auctioned in the Nude
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Rare & risque art shots could fetch $4.5 mil. at Christie's saleA planned New York City auction will feature nude photos of supermodels Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss. The prints are a part of a 135-piece collection belonging to a German collector and is expected to bring in more than $4.5 million when it is auctioned off at Christie's April 10th.
"...Gisele Bundchen's stunning naked form is one of a large collection of pricey prints up for auction at Christie's next month," wrote Eloise Parker in the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
The photo of Moss was taken back in 1996, during the period of her stormy romance with Johnny Depp.
Snapped by Irving Penn, the photographs come from the collection of Gert Elfering, who spent 20 years accumulating the rare prints by the likes of Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Diane Arbus and Man Ray.
Other photos in the lot include shots of Lauren Hutton, Brigitte Bardot, Christie Turlington, Miles Daves, The Beatles and Picasso.
The blog KlioReport opined: "The tastefully shot nudes show a young, unspoilt Kate Moss, and an Amazonian looking Gisele Bundchen..."
The collection will be on display at 20 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan from Friday, April 4th to Tuesday, April 8th, leading up to the auction.
Some gallery highlights from this auction can be found at the website for Christie's New York.
Editor's note: Given that this is the third story we've run in recent weeks involving a Victoria's Secret babe, we felt it best, in the interest of presenting balanced visual content, not to post a picture of either of the two supermodels featured in this story. Instead, we thought we'd feature a photo of a certain Tom Brady - the one guy who can, at present, confirm the authenticity of what is represented in the photo of Ms. Bundchen.
posted by Chris and Frank at 9:12 PM
2 Comments:
Nice story... but I like the babes better!
Snoop,
Baltimore.
Snoop,
We feel you BIG time, Dawg. However, it's not like a guy can't get more than his eyeful of supermodel images on the ol' www, right?
Frankly, it was kind of disconcerting for us to find that some of the more interesting auction-related news in recent weeks just happened to involve supermodels. The last thing we want to do is act all junior high and plaster this place with cheesecake. At the same time, the show biz aspect of these stories was a welcome relief from some of the more mundane (though important) news from the auction world. So, in the interest of fair play we felt it only right to offer some window dressing for the ladies.
In radio, this is known as appealing to your target-demo females. If Tom Brady doesn't cover us on that account, next time we'll just run a head shot of Manolo Blahnik. ;-)
Chris & Frank
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