One of Kate Moss’s ‘best photos ever’ set to fetch £18,000 as it goes under the hammer at Uk Auction
A photograph deemed by Kate Moss to be one of the best ever taken of her is to go up for auction.
Albert Watson's candid black and white portrait of the supermodel taken at the end of a day's shoot on a Marrakech roof top in 1993, when she agreed to let Watson take some nude shots.
'Watson created probably two of the most iconic images of Moss on a shoot for German Vogue, and today they remain among his most popular pictures,' Bonhams said.
'At the end of a day shooting on a roof-top in Marrakech, Watson suggested he create nude photographs of Moss and she happily obliged.'
Watson described this picture, part of a series, as 'among the best pictures ever taken of her,' adding that 'she said so as well recently.'
Further photographs of Kate Moss will be included in the auction, including one by the late photographer Corinne Day, who is widely credited with launching Kate's modelling career. Her seemingly unposed shots hint at the raw talent that Kate possessed in her early days in front of the lens.
Other top lots featuring A-list subjects include a 1971 portrait of Brigitte Bardot, taken by Terry O'Neill (estimate £4,000 to £6,000); an Albert Watson portrait of Christy Turlington taken in 1990 (guide price £2,500 to £3,500); and Andre de Dienes' photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken at the Bel Air Hotel in 1952, which has a guide price of £2,000 to £3,000.
The photographs come as part of a sale by London auction house Bonhams on New Bond St, who are to offer up a selection of iconic images of celebrities as part of its Photographs Sale on 17 November.
Other well-known faces in the sale include Salvador Dali taken by Horst P. Horst (estimate £3,000 to £4,000); Courtney Love by David LaChapelle (estimate £7,000 to 9,000); and Frank Sinatra (with his bodyguards) by Terry O’Neill (estimate £6,000 to 8,000).
Elsewhere, the sale features an intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from 1864 (estimate £25,000 – 35,000); and the top lot, Robert Mapplethorpe’s spectacular Calla Lily, 1986 (estimate £30,000 – 50,000).
Source: Daily Mail website