NEW YORK - A nude photo of film director Roman Polanski, who is now being held in a Swiss prison, and his wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, will be sold at an upcoming auction where it could fetch more than US$10,000, organizers said.

The large-scale gelatin silver print, from an image taken by David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were brutally slain by followers of Charles Manson, was printed in 1988 when it was earmarked for a traveling photography exhibition.