Jumat, 14 Desember 2007

Banderas buys art at charity auction (AP)

SANTIAGO, Chile - Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, paid $50,000 for works by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali at a charity event this week, an auction official said.

"They bought the two works for a price much higher than their commercial value because the proceedings of the auction went to UNICEF," Denise Ratinoff, head of the auction house, told The Associated Press by telephone.

"It was virtually a donation to UNICEF," she said Wednesday. "And it helped a lot, because their presence in the auction made many other people also pay steeply for what they purchased."

Banderas, 47, has starred in the films "Evita" and "The Mask of Zorro." He voiced the Puss in Boots character in "Shrek 2" and "Shrek the Third." Griffith, 50, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1988's "Working Girl."

Ratinoff said the etchings purchased by the couple were Miro's "San Lazaro et Ses Amis" and Dali's "Rosy Horse."

They were in Chile to promote Banderas' fragrance Blue Seduction.

Their activities also included a luncheon with President Michelle Bachelet, with whom "we talked about politics, movies, life," according to Banderas.

 
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