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Lipstick self-portrait by Kate Moss to be auctioned |
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By: Agencies |
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Date:
2008-09-24 |
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Place: London |
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 The first painting by Kate Moss ever to be sold will be auctioned in London on Saturday.
Painted in 2005-2006, it is a self-portrait in lipstick (see pic) marked with her own lip prints and stains of her former boyfriend Pete Doherty's blood.
Estimated to fetch between £30,000 and £40,000 (Rs 25 and 34 lakh), the painting is not signed, but is inscribed by Doherty "Who needs blood when you've got lipstick?", and comes with a receipt of sale made out on a Soho House napkin from Doherty, who originally owned the painting.
Also for sale is a self-portrait print by Doherty, "Look what they have done to the boy", which is signed in blood and estimated at £10,000 (Rs 8.5 lakh). Robin Barton of the Bankrobber gallery in west London, who published the Doherty print, remembers supplying the canvas for Moss. "It was just a cheap canvas from Portobello Road. I don't know of any other paintings she did." |
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