Kate Moss gathers collectors

04 July 2013 - 02:20 By ©The Telegraph
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Kate Moss
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A selection of some of the most iconic images of former supermodel Kate Moss are to be auctioned by Christie's this autumn.

Photographs by Mario Sorrenti, Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Sam Taylor-Wood and Irving Penn, assembled by German collector Gert Elfering, are expected to fetch around £1-million (about R15-million).

Elfering called the 39-year-old Londoner a "living icon", and Christie's director of photographs, Philippe Garner, referred to Moss as "the greatest icon of style of the modern age".

Lots up for auction include a 1992 image of Moss nude on a couch by Sorrenti, valued at between £30000 and £50000, and a 3-D hologram image on a lightbox by Chris Levine estimated at between £100000 and £150000.

The sale also includes a Peter Blake collage, a Jacquard tapestry by Chuck Close and an 18-carat gold sculpture of Moss as a naked angel by Nick Knight.

The works will be sold in London on September 25.

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