Get the latest gossip
The mystery of the 'Bonham-Carter' artist who painted nudes of Helena
This week, nearly 40 years after her appearance in A Room With A View, not one but two images of a naked Helena Bonham Carter went under the hammer at a Suffolk auction house.
Her breakthrough role came in a film which saw three of her co-stars cavort in a scene of 'frontal, flapping, male nudity' – as one critic put it – in starkest contrast to her own buttoned-up part which, she feared, typecast her as a virginal English rose. But this week, nearly 40 years after her appearance in A Room With A View, not one but two images of a naked Helena Bonham Carter went under the hammer at a Suffolk auction house – signed, intriguingly, 'R Bonham-Carter'. Lacy Scott added a note barely an hour before Thursday's auction, explaining that the seller '[says that] these works were purchased by a deceased family member from the artist's exhibition in Bloomsbury (date unknown)'.
Or read this on Daily Mail