Madonna Nude Going On Auction Block At Christie's (NSFW PHOTO)

NEW YORK � Christie's auction house says a 30-year-old nude photo of Madonna, which earned her a $25 modeling fee, is expected to sell for at least $10,000.

The full frontal image was taken by Lee Friedlander and appeared in Playboy in 1985.

Matthieu Humery (mah-TYOO' OO'-meh-ree), head of Christie's photography department, says Madonna was a 20-year-old dancer trying to make ends meet when she answered Friedlander's newspaper ad seeking a nude model in 1979.

He says six photos from the shoot were sold to Playboy and the one up for auction Feb. 12 is "maybe the most explicit one."

Another photo of Madonna, by Helmut Newton, is also in the auction. In that shot, she is wearing lingerie.

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THE PHOTO AND DESCRIPTION FROM CHRISTIE'S WEBSITE:

Comments

[prostock69]

OMG!!! I am laughing so hard right now. That is the scariest cooch I have ever seen! And the armpits! Wow!

[madone55]

MADONNA LOOKS LIKE SHE HAS BUCKWHEAT IN A LEG LOCK

[SabrinaFair]

There are no words here.

Just retching.

[icantsurf]

Would've been a good photo if Don King didn't jump in the frame... oh wait.

[1logicalthinker]

LMAO!

[b13thomas]

oh i love the Mediterranean look...not

[lacasarosada]

what a hairy broad

[LLizzard2244]

Love that bush. Is that hair under her arms.

[Brian Englert]

I threw up in my mouth a little bit . . . little bit.

[ashabot]

Nice intensity in a very lovely face. And the animal between her legs? Very alive. A stunning photo.

[doglove]

I am not a Madonna fan, but..............

she looks wonderful and sexy and like a woman, not a child. This was in the seventes. We were into natural beauty back then, as in REAL. Everyone didn't have perfect white teeth and perfect breasts and perfect hair, tan, nails. We found beauty in the individual.

When you got a bush, you were no longer a child. Shouldn't that be sexy? And don't say "grooming" because their is nothing dirty about clean hair. The transformation to 'all woman must be bikini waxed' is an extension of all American men must be circumcised.

"it's ugly, it's not attractive, it looks dirty"

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

the marketing genius's have made a fortune on convincing Americans that the way they are made is not the way they should be. Europeans seem to accept, even love their bodies, in the real. Maybe they haven't had the cash for the miracle transformations.

Her breasts are unbelievable, the new ones don't look that way.

Kudos Madonna, don't be ashamed of this photo. Self love and acceptance is very sexy!

[Jessica Teymouri]

Thank you for this refreshing perspective.

[goldnchyl]

Excellent summary of our mass conditioning. Very profitable for some. Neuroses inducing for us.

[ScottL]

Where is PETA when you need them ?
She really needs to let that poor raccoon up for some air !

[luckyoldson]

That raccoon's been gone for years.

[horsey]

you kidding..? that's all that's left of dennis rodman...

[swellsoire]

Why is she riding that poor tired furry creature? Is this animal abuse or a nod to good taste?

[MrKnuckles]

Clearly Madonna has had to endure many more years of horrifying bush policies than most of us have ever been exposed to, so hey, cut Madge some slack, okay? Or at least trim her some slack... a little around the edges maybe...

[LadyJUNE]

I feel VERY sorry for Madonna that this horrible porn picture was shown
this happened when she was a young 20yr old she has gone through a Divorce
has 2 Young Children do the Creeps who snapped these pictures care what
this does to her children and her family I hope she sues Christie's Auction house
who bought them and the person who tock the pictures something needs to be done in our country when they wait until young people become a star and then Drag out this PORN on the Internet for anyone to
see even children have excess. Madonna made a huge mistake when she was very young and desperately needed money BUT THIIS IS pornography and should be Banned from showing on
Web Pages or in Playboy anywhere.I really feel bad for her.

[Rivermont]

But oh darl-i-n-g, this is art and you know art cannot be supressed.

I'm sure someone will proudly display it in their living room.

[luckyoldson]

First of all, it's far from being "porn." And it's a collector's item for sure.

Art is in the eyes of the beholder.

[goldnchyl]

Pornography? The human body? Really?

[Annemarie Horner]

I think creeps is a bit strong... Lee Friedlander is a phenomenal photographer, his works are amazing, I would give anything to have him take my photo!

[TequilaMockingbird]

Nice 70's Panty Puffer... great photo and interesting

I find the unshaved snatch to be much less offensive than the shaved into pre-pubescence one.. Men who prefer that totally bald look worry me....

[doglove]

Agree!

No one seems to know what a real snatch looks like here!

[drewziGNY]

It's less offensive than those photos of Britney or Paris getting out of their cars.

[horsey]

come on man that looks like a large rodent she has stashed down there....be honest about it.

[drymartini1]

different people like different things. women included.

making general comments like having a clean shaven snatch is somehow offensive is ridiculous. btw, most men like clean shaven snatch. looks sexy. but that just an opinion not a fact of course. :)