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November 26, 2009, Thursday
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A NUDE photo of film director Roman Polanski, who is currently being held in a Swiss prison, and his wife Sharon Tate, taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, is to be sold at auction.
Organizers said it could fetch more than US$10,000.
The print, from an image taken by David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were brutally slain by followers of Charles Manson, was printed in 1988. "It's an important image," said Laura Paterson, a vice president at Christie's auction house in New York.
"It certainly is provocative because of who the characters are. But it's also a touching naked shot of a happy couple," she added.
The portrait depicts the couple from the waist up. Tate poses in profile to the camera with her right arm over Polanski's shoulder, and Polanski's arms are wrapped around his wife's torso.
One of nearly 200 photos in the December 7 auction, its estimate ranges from US$8,000 to US$12,000, but a sale figure could go higher given Polanski's renewed notoriety since his September arrest in Switzerland.
Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a extradition request.
He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Organizers said it could fetch more than US$10,000.
The print, from an image taken by David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were brutally slain by followers of Charles Manson, was printed in 1988. "It's an important image," said Laura Paterson, a vice president at Christie's auction house in New York.
"It certainly is provocative because of who the characters are. But it's also a touching naked shot of a happy couple," she added.
The portrait depicts the couple from the waist up. Tate poses in profile to the camera with her right arm over Polanski's shoulder, and Polanski's arms are wrapped around his wife's torso.
One of nearly 200 photos in the December 7 auction, its estimate ranges from US$8,000 to US$12,000, but a sale figure could go higher given Polanski's renewed notoriety since his September arrest in Switzerland.
Polanski, 76, is being held in a Swiss prison pending a decision on a extradition request.
He fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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