Nude Bruni photo sells for $91,000 in auction
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080411/2008_04_11t130709_450x321_us_bruni_odd.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=LGq3o.8qfxonS46VtjU5yQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="A Christie's auction house employee takes a telephone bid on a nude photo of France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993 in New York April 10, 2008. The nude portrait of the former fashion model, standing in a pigeon-toed pose and covering her modesty with her hands, sold for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price. The photo had been expected to fetch between $3,000 and $4,000, It was auctioned as part of a sale of 140 photos from German collector Gert Elfering by Christie's. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080411/od_nm/bruni_odd_dc)Reuters - A nude photo of French first lady
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, standing in a pigeon-toed pose and
covering her modesty with her hands, was sold on Thursday in
New York for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price.</p><br clear="all"/>
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