NEW YORK – New York’s highly acclaimed Capo Auction Fine Art and Antiques in Long Island City will present their annual Holiday Auction on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 11 a.m. Eastern. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

Taking the spotlight at the auction will be just recently made public nude art photographs of actress and Dancing with the Stars host Brooke Burke, taken by German art photographer Andre Plessel. These art photographs caused much controversy when they were first made public just six weeks ago, and were originally taken in 1996 for a German auto parts catalog. Capo Auction is expanding more and more into the contemporary art and modern photography markets, also offering an early Andre Plessel photograph of supermodel Karolina Kurkova and one of his unique color processed pieces.

Capo Auction will also feature a selection of other contemporary art including the Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) screen print called Lamentation, on Lenox museum board, 1986. It is signed and numbered 4/100 (verso). The sheet size 36 is 36 inches. Its estimated value is $30,000-$35,000. The Andre Plessel (German/American, 20th/21st century) silver gelatin photographs are all 24 inches by 20 inches in sheet size.

The two black and white nude images of Brooke Burke are Desert Woman No. 2, Route 66, LA 1996, silver gelatin print, New York Series, 2014, which is signed, dated and numbered 1/2 (verso), matted and framed, and Tire Nude, Route 66, LA 1996 silver gelatin print, New York Series, 2014, which is signed, dated and numbered 1/2 (verso). Both are estimated at $4,000-$5,000.

Capo will also sell the Andre Plessel black and white photograph of Karolina Kurkova, called Taste, Karolina Kurkova, NYC 1998, silver gelatin print, New York Series, 2014, which is signed, dated and numbered 1/1 (verso), estimated at $3,000-$4,000, and one of Plessel’s unique color processed works called She, Paris 1995, pigment print on archival rag paper, New York Series, 2014, which is also signed, dated, numbered 1/1 (verso), matted and framed. This is also estimated at $3,000-$4,000. The provenance on all the Plessel photographs is Lilac Gallery, New York, NY.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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