Nude Madonna and Guy Painting Fails to Sell

REJECTIONS

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 2:56PM EDT / Published Jun. 07, 2009 4:02PM EDT

An unflattering 2005 painting of Madonna and Guy Ritchie reclining in the nude by Scottish painter Peter Howson, now a relic of their ill-fated eight-year marriage, failed to sell at auction in Glasgow with a £15,000 reserve. Following the February Christies’s sale of a 1979 Lee Friedlander photo depicting Madonna in a Courbet-like nude for $37,500—more than doubling the high estimate—the brutish portrayal of the megastar with Ritchie clutching a rippling thigh didn’t live up to the hype.

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Nude Madonna and Guy Painting Fails to Sell