Christine Keeler poses for a portrait at the height of The Profumo Affair
Like John Profumo, who was then Secretary of State for War, artist Kaptain Kobold couldn't resist showgirl Christine Keeler. In 1963 Profumo was introduced to Keeler, starting a chain of events that came to be known as the Profumo Affair, culminating in an MI5 investigation that revealed Keeler was also sleeping with a suspected Soviet spy.
Amid the furore of the affair, Keeler posed for photographer Lewis Morley to promote the film The Keeler Affair, a dramatisation of her story. She was assured both the portrait (below) and film would only be distributed outside Britain, but The Sunday Mirror published a stolen copy of the image, immortalising Keeler and this iconic photo.
As simple as the portrait is, Kaptain Kobold found its Lego reconstruction deceptively difficult. "A tricky image to reproduce in Lego, as minifig legs aren't really up to being posed around a chair like the original," he says in his Flickr notes. "The arms were also an issue, as a Lego figure can't hold them the way she does in the original picture. After trying a number of poses I settled for this one as the best compromise."
Credit: Flickr: Kaptain Kobold