Christie's Pop Culture Auction New York 25 June 2008

1 Marilyn Monroe, Andre de Dienes, 1945

2 Marilyn Monroe, Unsigned, 1945

3 Marilyn Monroe, Bert Stern, 1962

4 Interview Magazine feat. Debbie Harry, signed by Andy Warhol, 1979

Gisele's Smokin'

Portrait by Michel Comte, 1999

With that naked photo of Carla Bruni having garnered some of the most impressive column inches of the year so far, photographer Michel Comte is at it again; his 1999 shot of a bare-breasted Gisele Bundchen will go under the hammer at Christie's next month. The Photographs sale, which will be held at Christie's London on May 15, is another supermodel-centric affair; also up is a black-and-white portrait of Kate Moss, taken by Albert Watson in Marrakech circa 1993. The guide price for the Comte piece is £6,000 to £8,000 - but since an Irving Penn portrait of Gisele recently smashed its £20,000 guide and sold for £98,000, the sky, it seems, is the limit.

via http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=52178