The £105,000 Kiss

Evening Standard11 April 2012
The Weekender

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The woman in Robert Doisneau's classic photograph of a couple kissing on a Paris street has auctioned her original print for £105,000 - 10 times the expected figure.

Ex-actress Francoise Bornet, 75, sold The Kiss At City Hall to an unidentified Swiss buyer 12 years after a court threw out her claim for nearly £12,000 from Doisneau and a percentage of sales of the photo.

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