On October 9th in New York, Sotheby’s (http://www.luxist.com/tag/Sothebys) will stage a stunning sale of photographs including several nude portraits of supermodels, with work from the likes of Chuck Close, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and more. One of the top lots is a series of six full frontal nudes of Kate Moss by Chuck Close taken in 2003, estimated at $100,000 – $150,000. Another high-priced draw is a portfolio of 12 semi-nude images of Marilyn Monroe (http://www.luxist.com/tag/MarilynMonroe) taken in 1962 by Lawrence Schiller, estimated at $50,000 – $70,000. Two Peter Lindbergh portraits of Mick Jagger taken in 1995 are estimated at $30,000 – $50,000. And a nude of Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon taken in 1992 is estimated at $20,000 – $30,000, while this relatively tame image of Nadja Auermann by Irving Penn from 1994 is also a relative bargain at $6,000 – $9,000.

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