布呂尼裸照9萬美元拍出 買家爲中國人

A nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been sold in New York for $US91,000, more than 20 times its expected price.

A buyer for a Chinese art collector bought the black-and-white image, taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993 during her modelling days, Christie's auction house said.

The photo shows the model in a pigeon-toed pose and covering her modesty with her hands.

The sale of the photo has attracted attention since Bruni married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in February.

The photo had been expected to fetch between $US3,000 and $US4,000.

It was auctioned as part of a sale of 140 photos from German collector Gert Elfering, which also features work by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Peter Beard.

An Avedon portrait of 1950s and 1960s French screen siren Brigitte Bardot sold for $US181,000 ($A194,352).

It had been expected to garner between $US80,000 and $US120,000.

法國第一夫人卡拉•布呂尼-薩科齊的一張裸體寫真日前在紐約以9.1萬美元的高價拍出，高出預估價20多倍。

據克里斯蒂拍賣行介紹，這張照片被一名中國藝術收藏家拍得。這張出自攝影大師米歇爾•康姆特之手的黑白裸體寫真拍攝於1993年，當時布呂尼還是名模特。

照片中的布呂尼雙腿呈內八字姿勢，雙手遮住了羞處。

自從布呂尼於今年2月與法國總統薩科齊完婚後，這張照片的拍賣便吸引了廣泛關注。

這張裸照在拍賣之前的估價爲三千至四千美元。

拍賣這張照片的德國收藏家哥特•艾爾菲林此次共拍賣了140張照片，同時拍賣的照片中還包括歐文•佩恩、理查德•阿維頓、海爾姆特•紐頓和彼特•伯德的作品。

其中一張由阿維頓拍攝的照片以18.1萬美元的高價拍出，照片中的人物是法國上世紀五六十年代的著名影星布里吉特•巴多特。

這張照片的預估價在8萬美元至12萬美元之間