Nude Kate Moss Photos Sell for £183,000  6/1/07

Nude photographs of supermodel KATE MOSS fetched a total of £183,000 ($366,000) when they went up for sale in a London auction yesterday (31May07).

A six foot square photograph of a naked Moss, taken by Albert Watson, sold for £54,000 ($108,000) - five times the amount auction house Christie's had expected.

A 1996 portrait of the catwalk star entitled Kate Moss (Hand on Neck) went under the hammer at £38,400 ($76,800), while a 1993 photo of Moss shot by Corinne Day for the cover of fashion magazine Vogue sold for £6,600 ($13,200).

But at £84,000 ($168,000), the highest bid for a Moss original was for a set of six prints of the 33-year-old without make-up, taken by Chuck Close. The photos were originally estimated to go for only $40,000 (£20,000).