The Telegraph reports on Kate Moss's self-portrait 'Who needs blood when you've got lipstick?'. Painted in 2005-2006, it is a self-portrait in lipstick marked with her own lip prints and stains of her former boyfriend Pete Doherty's blood. Estimated to fetch between £30,000 and £40,000, the painting is not signed, but is inscribed by Doherty "Who needs blood when you've got lipstick?", and comes with a receipt of sale made out on a Soho House napkin from Doherty, who originally owned the painting. Also for sale is a self-portrait print by Doherty, "Look what they have done to the boy", which is signed in blood and estimated at £8,000 to £10,000. Robin Barton of the Bankrobber art gallery in west London, who published the Doherty print, remembers supplying the canvas for Moss. "It was just a cheap canvas from Portobello Road that cost about £15. I don't know of any other paintings she did." (For full source and full article click the Headline).
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Art, Blood and Lipstick
The Telegraph reports on Kate Moss's self-portrait 'Who needs blood when you've got lipstick?'. Painted in 2005-2006, it is a self-portrait in lipstick marked with her own lip prints and stains of her former boyfriend Pete Doherty's blood. Estimated to fetch between £30,000 and £40,000, the painting is not signed, but is inscribed by Doherty "Who needs blood when you've got lipstick?", and comes with a receipt of sale made out on a Soho House napkin from Doherty, who originally owned the painting. Also for sale is a self-portrait print by Doherty, "Look what they have done to the boy", which is signed in blood and estimated at £8,000 to £10,000. Robin Barton of the Bankrobber art gallery in west London, who published the Doherty print, remembers supplying the canvas for Moss. "It was just a cheap canvas from Portobello Road that cost about £15. I don't know of any other paintings she did." (For full source and full article click the Headline).
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