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Article: Focus: Is Kate Moss the new Mona Lisa? The person who paid pounds 3.9m for her portrait last week might be forgiven for thinking so. And style guru Stephen Bayley thinks he has a point. The supermodels of the 16th and 21st centuries are inscrutable, erotically charged - and unattainable
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2005
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The nation is in thrall to the Kate Moss Code. A severe smile and
enigmatic sexuality are captivating, looking out at us from
newspapers everywhere. Christie's has just sold a version of them,
translated on to canvas in Lucian Freud's Naked Portrait 2002, for
pounds 3.9m - the second highest price ever paid for a Lucian Freud.
The girl from Croydon has them in equal measure with the mystery
woman of the Louvre. George Sand said the 16th-century supermodel we
call Mona Lisa possessed la laide seduisante (seductive ugliness).
Kate Moss has the same: those thin, endless legs, tight boots,
tighter trousers, amazing hair. Her image is everywhere. But Kate
Moss is not conventionally beautiful. ...
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