1:59pm Sunday 12th August 2007
By Dan Menhinnitt
A jazz club owner and artist is having trouble shifting a £300 portrait of Kate Moss.
Sam Shaker, who runs the Jazz After Dark club in Soho, painted the Croydon-born model's portrait at the request of the catwalk queen.
She is said to have commissioned the painting after her then partner Pete Doherty saw some of Mr Shaker's paintings, which were on show at the club, when he visited to talk about a possible Babyshambles gig there.
But following Kate's split from Pete the painting has still not been collected, although Mr Shaker revealed 28-year-old Doherty did try and claim it, but he could not stump up the cash.
Mr Shaker told The Mail on Sunday: "Pete came to my club to take it, but he had no money on him."
He added: "He said he wanted to give it to Kate to apologise - but I couldn't just let him take it. And I wouldn't ask Kate for the money. Now I may auction if for charity."
In June early photographs of Kate Moss sold for £183,000 at a London auction, and dotted painting of the mum-of-one by Paul Normansell proved so popular the artist had to create more.
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