Explicit photos of Madonna naked from her controversial Sex book on sale for as much as £240,000

PHOTOGRAPHS of Madonna naked, from her controversial Sex book, are up for grabs for as much as £240,000.

Some 40 explicit prints of the US pop queen, then aged 34, will be going under the hammer for the first time.

Each will be signed by Madonna, now 64, and Steven Meisel, who shot the 1992 publication.

Guide prices begin at £40,000 in October’s auction at Christie’s, New York.

Its deputy chairman Darius Himes said of the book: “Thirty years on, ‘Sex’ is still somewhat controversial, but it still reads as a very body-positive, sex-positive book.

“It was shocking and titillating and captured so much white-hot energy coming off of Madonna in the early 1990s.”

It comes as we revealed rising Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney snubbed the lead role in Madonna’s doomed biopic because she could see the writing on the wall, a source has told The U.S. Sun.

The Euphoria actress, 25, was wooed by the Queen of Pop during the casting of the movie last year as she went up against the likes of Florence Pugh.

Ultimately Sydney lost out to Ozark star Julia Garner, 29, but she had the last laugh when Universal Pictures canned the ill-fated project in January.