A nude photograph of Roman Polanski, best known for his United States exile for doing a 13 year old, and his wife Sharon Tate, best known for being brutally murdered by the Charles Manson gang, sold for $11,250 recently according to Reuters:
A nude photograph of film director Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate, taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, sold for $11,250 at an auction on Monday, with the director's recent arrest fuelling interest.
The large-scale gelatin silver print was from an image taken by English photographer David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were slain by followers of Charles Manson. It was printed in 1988 for a traveling exhibition.
The roughly 33-inch by 33-inch portrait depicts the couple from the waist up, their arms on or around each other and gazing into the lens. It had been expected to raise between $8,000 and $12,000.
"Bailey knew Polanski very well, not least because Bailey had ambitions himself to be a filmmaker and indeed in 1966 he ended up making a 30 minute short which I think rarely gets seen," Philippe Garner of auctioneers Christie's told Reuters Television.
The large-scale gelatin silver print was from an image taken by English photographer David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were slain by followers of Charles Manson. It was printed in 1988 for a traveling exhibition.
The roughly 33-inch by 33-inch portrait depicts the couple from the waist up, their arms on or around each other and gazing into the lens. It had been expected to raise between $8,000 and $12,000.
"Bailey knew Polanski very well, not least because Bailey had ambitions himself to be a filmmaker and indeed in 1966 he ended up making a 30 minute short which I think rarely gets seen," Philippe Garner of auctioneers Christie's told Reuters Television.
I really had no idea Roman was married to quite possibly the hottest woman I've ever seen. Well, before the murder anyway. It's still no excuse to have sex with a 13 year old, but damn, this guy's life pretty much sucked after 1969.
I included a photo of Sharon Tate and, also, am I the only one who figured out Roman and Dustin Hoffman are identical twins? Just wondering.
