Kate portrait by Freud from "W" estimated at $5 Million + at Christie's sale
KATE MOSS NUDE GOES ON THE BLOCK
The hottest lot in the forthcoming contemporary art auction at Christie's London on Feb. 9, 2005, is octogenarian artist Lucien Freud's large (5 x 4 ft.) painting of a nude Kate Moss, painted in 2002 when the supermodel was pregnant. Titled Naked Portrait, the picture is owned by an unnamed U.S. collector and carries a presale estimate of £2,500,000-£3,500,000 ($4.9 million-$6.8 million). Moss is shown in a typical Freudian pose, positioned on some bedding on the floor of the studio -- as Donald Kuspit has written about Freud's sitters in these pages, "cruelly and precariously positioned, as though in free fall, the model seems condemned to a lonely death." The work was exhibited at the artist's show at Aquavella Galleries in New York in 2003 and was reproduced in W Magazine as part of a portfolio of 17 artist's portraits of the waifish pop-culture star. Freud has also painted a portrait of a nude and pregnant Jerry Hall.
kate + freud + W + christie's = $5 million or more estimate
I heard from contactmusic.com, that Kate Moss is going to launch her own parfume.Wonder if that's true? I hate celeb-parfumes, so I hope it was just a rumor...If she wants to make a brand of herself, she should create lingerie (like Elle McPherson) or something, but please, NO MORE CELEB SCENTS!
kate is the bomb. she has an unprecedented TEN campaigns this season (anais anais, chanel coco mademoiselle, joop!, roberto cavalli, fred jewelry, rimmel, dior, burberry, david yurman, and ysl opium. which other model has EVER had that many? that speaks for itself.
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