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The Madonna Nudes - 30th Anniversary Exhibition photo: Martin H. M. Schreiber

Available to buy from £3,400 and guaranteed to become serious collectors’ items, this series of black and white photographs taken by Martin H. M. Schreiber capture Madonna’s exceptional beauty as a young woman with a toned body, perfect breasts and great skin.

Also for sale is a unique piece of never seen before memorabilia – a one off print of the original Madonna Polaroid test shot, which, included with the original model release and the Polaroid, is expected to fetch in excess of £40,000.  This would eclipse the previous record of $37,500 recently paid at auction earlier this year for the Lee Friedlander photograph which also featured in the 1985 Playboy.

For those on a more modest budget, but wanting a little snippet of Madonna, exclusive Madonna Nudes memorabilia including badges, postcards, books and original copies of the aforementioned Playboy magazine is available to buy from just £1.

The exhibition will be co-hosted by Seven Dials and Impure Art (the UK’s only erotic art gallery) who are exclusively handling the sale of the Madonna Nudes 30th Anniversary collection.

The Madonna Nudes will showcase at 19 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, WC2 from 2nd to 19th July.  The gallery will be open seven days – Monday to Saturday, 12-7pm, and Sunday 12-6pm.

About Martin H. M. Schreiber
Martin has spent a lifetime taking photographs.  As a young man he spent 2 years developing his eye and technical abilities under the not too watchful eye of the US military.  During this period he worked freelance for the New York Times.  After his discharge in 1968 he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York.  Bored by the draft dodgers and absent professors he quit and went solo.  In 1971 he won an honorable mention in the first Life Magazine photography contest in which there were 40,000 entrants.  Published on a full page and paid $600, this was the start of a brilliant career.

In 1977 he began teaching a course at Parsons on photographing the nude, which subsequently ran for the next 8 years.  His first book entitled Bodyscapes was published in 1980.  For his next book project, based on a deep love of the mythic cowboy, he spent the next 18 months riding horses, chasing cattle and cowboys throughout Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.  LAST OF A BREED came out in 1982. He was already showing work in galleries and working hard to become a household name in photography. Martin now lives in France and continues to work on personal projects, a camera always at his side.

About Impure Art
Impure Art is the UK’s only permanent, commercial, erotic art gallery.  Established only a year ago and dealing in art broadly described as ‘anything from nude to rude’ it has fast acquired a reputation for daring and exciting shows of extremely high quality. The gallery, situated in Ship Street Gardens in Brighton’s famous Lanes, represents over 100 artists, sculptors and photographers.