David Beckham gets the highbrow treatment tonight, with a charity gala auction at Phillips that's selling off collected photographs of the great man in aid of Unicef. It's a strange mixture of narcissism, commercialism and celebrity, allied to a good thing. A bit like some contemporary art, really – or Becks himself.Becks's body constitutes a work of art in its own right – most men would give their eye teeth to have the Essex-born footballer cum fashion-icon's physique. The curator of this unique collection, Kathy Adler – formerly of the National Gallery – compares his body to that of a classical Adonis: lean, lightly muscled and perfect. 

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