Photo auction that shows we can't get enough of Miss Moss

But that didn't stop collectors handing over a total of £183,000 for the chance to own an original print of her in her early days of modelling.

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Beach babe: a 19-year-old Kate Moss

The photographs, which date back to the early 1990s, include some nude shots taken in her early 20s.

A 96in by 72in image of Miss Moss (above), taken in Marrakesh by fashion photographer Albert Watson for the German edition of Vogue in January 1993, sold for five times the expected amount at £54,000.

A 1996 print, pictured below, entitled Kate Moss (Hand on Neck), went for £38,400, while a controversial image of Kate at Home taken for Vogue by Corrine Day in 1993, sold for £6,600.

It shows the then 19-year-old model in pants and a pink top, surrounded by fairy lights.

The picture and accompanying Vogue article is said to have "moved grunge into mainstream".

A set of six prints taken by Chuck Close in 2003 went for the highest price of £84,000.

At the time, Miss Moss had not combed her hair, put on any make-up or even looked in the mirror.

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A sun-kissed Kate gazes at the camera in 2003

"I've had enough pretty pictures made of me," she said.

The four lots were auctioned separately at Christie's in London.

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While readily available on the Internet or as copies, sometimes in the form of postcards or posters, the auctioned photographs of Miss Moss, now 33, are prized because they are the photographer's original prints.

The higher quality, combined with the kudos that goes with owning an original, all add to their value.