An 18-carat gold statue of Kate Moss in a provocative yoga pose has sold for £577,250 at Sotheby's.Mircrocosmos (Siren) was sold to an anonymous Asian
telephone bidder.The
provocative statue - which features the supermodel posing with her legs
behind her back, is a smaller 10kg version of Marc Quinn's 50kg Siren That statue cost £1.5million to make - of which £1million was just the price of the gold.The
smaller Microcosmos (Siren) which is one of four identical pieces will
have cost about £200,000 just for the gold. It was part of a private
collection.Explaining the name, Quinn said 'It's
called Siren, because in a sense it represents everything that lures
people to wreck themselves on the rocks: money, perfection, unattainable
images – all these things
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