Nude Carla Bruni fails to excite Paris auction
A nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, identical to one sold last year for $91,000, was Friday withdrawn from a Paris auction after bids failed to hit the reserve price. Bidding for the black and white shot, showing Bruni standing pigeon-toed and covering her crotch with her hands, began at 4,000 euros but reached only 5,800, less than the undisclosed reserve price, the Drouot auction house said. The agent for the German collector who owns the photo then decided to withdraw it, the house said. An identical picture was sold at Christie’s auction house in New York in April last year - just two months after Bruni married Sarkozy - and fetched $91,000, which was 30 times the expected price. The photos were shot by Michel Comte in 1993, many years before the Italian-born Bruni, who gave up her supermodel career to become a pop singer, met Sarkozy. afp
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