Kim Cattrall strips to keep classic painting in Britain

26 Nov 2008

SEX AND THE CITY actress KIM CATTRALL has stripped off in the name of art - posing half naked in a bid to keep a famous Renaissance painting in Britain.

 The sultry star has posed seductively in a photographic remake of Italian classic painting Diana and Actaeon to raise awareness of Britain's National Galleries' campaign to keep the classic work in the U.K.
 
The painting is owned by the Duke of Sutherland, who has given gallery officials until December (08) to raise the funds needed to buy the artwork on behalf of Britain - or the item will be sold to foreign bidders.
 
And Cattrall hopes her naked ambition will help raise much needed funds to keep the painting in the country of her birth.
 
She tells the BBC's Culture Show seeing the painting is "like being in the presence of genius."