Simon Just
2017-01-16 10:04:37 UTC
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An infamous photo of former Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau
sans underwear is on the auction block.
With the 40th anniversary of Studio 54 coming up plus a
documentary and a book by the nightclubs co-owner Ian Schrager
Palm Beach Modern Auctions is offering hundreds of gelatin
silver prints taken at the disco hot spot by the late Richard P.
Manning.
The black-and-white images showing Andy Warhol, David Bowie,
Truman Capote, Michael Jackson and such survivors as Elton John,
John Travolta, Cher, Brooke Shields and Calvin Klein will be
hammered down Feb. 4 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
But Mannings most controversial shot was of Margaret Trudeau
then-estranged from her husband, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau sitting on the floor at Studio 54 with her knees and
her long skirt hiked up enough to show that she was going
commando.
High Society magazine published the image in its September 1979
issue, fanning the flames of Maggies notoriety.
Interest in the photo increased in 2015 when Trudeaus handsome
son Justin who was 7 when the photo was taken in 1978
followed in his fathers footsteps to become prime minister.
Manning died in 2013. The sellers are his relatives who had
stored the photographers life work in a basement upstate.
http://pagesix.com/2017/01/15/photo-of-justin-trudeaus-mom-
commando-at-studio-54-up-for-auction/
An infamous photo of former Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau
sans underwear is on the auction block.
With the 40th anniversary of Studio 54 coming up plus a
documentary and a book by the nightclubs co-owner Ian Schrager
Palm Beach Modern Auctions is offering hundreds of gelatin
silver prints taken at the disco hot spot by the late Richard P.
Manning.
The black-and-white images showing Andy Warhol, David Bowie,
Truman Capote, Michael Jackson and such survivors as Elton John,
John Travolta, Cher, Brooke Shields and Calvin Klein will be
hammered down Feb. 4 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
But Mannings most controversial shot was of Margaret Trudeau
then-estranged from her husband, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau sitting on the floor at Studio 54 with her knees and
her long skirt hiked up enough to show that she was going
commando.
High Society magazine published the image in its September 1979
issue, fanning the flames of Maggies notoriety.
Interest in the photo increased in 2015 when Trudeaus handsome
son Justin who was 7 when the photo was taken in 1978
followed in his fathers footsteps to become prime minister.
Manning died in 2013. The sellers are his relatives who had
stored the photographers life work in a basement upstate.
http://pagesix.com/2017/01/15/photo-of-justin-trudeaus-mom-
commando-at-studio-54-up-for-auction/