The evening featured both silent and live auctions of works -- predominantly but not solely nudes -- by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Claudio Bravo, Roy Lichtenstein, Jock Sturges, Jamie Wyeth, Stephen Hannock, Sol LeWitt and even the Prince of Wales, who did a landscape, not a nude.

"He could become king!" said the auctioneer while hawking the royal's painting.

As no event with such a title would be complete without actual naked people, MAC put on a live body-painting performance called "Naked Spin," where 99 percent-naked men and women gyrated on stage - making it hard for some transfixed onlookers to focus on bidding.

Luckily there were more than enough bids to make the evening a success though.

Perhaps tempted to spend more as a result of the free-flowing "Pink Nudie" cocktails, the audience's total bidding reached about $500,000. T

his included $20,000 for Prince Charles' piece, entitled "Balmoral Winter Scene."

The event's proceeds will benefit graduate student scholarships and programs at the New York Academy of Art.