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Iconic image of Kate Moss by Corinne Day to sell at Bonhams, exhibition opens at Gimpel Fils
Portrait of Kate Moss by Corinne Day. Estimate: £1,000 – 1,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.-
Just over a year after the untimely death of British fashion
photographer, Corinne Day (1962-2010), one of her most iconic images of
Kate Moss is to be sold at Bonhams,
New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 17 November 2011.
The image was taken for the February 1991 issue of The Face magazine for
a feature called Heaven is Real. The photograph on offer is a rare
vintage print and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £1,000 – 1,500.
Corinne Day’s daring and provocative images burst into collective
consciousness through the pages of The Face magazine in the early 1990s.
The exhibition at Gimpel Fils
revisits some of Day’s earliest photographs created for The Face,
providing an opportunity to assess the on-going artistic legacy of her
exceptional vision. During the 1980s and ‘90s, The Face broke
boundaries with its radical art ... More
