Well-known painter Peter Howson’s latest portrait of Madonna and hubby Guy Ritchie is on sale for 15 000 pounds.

This is not the first time Howson has painted the luscious diva, and he admits that he has never actually "fancied her," but has got a "thing about her."

"I've never actually fancied her but I admit I've got a thing about her," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

The artist's agent Matthew Flowers, however, has a different story.

"Peter is a bit obsessed with Madonna," Flowers says. "There are strong rumours that Guy was very jealous of the earlier pictures he'd painted of her and wanted to knock Peter's block off."

In the recent painting, the middle-aged songstress reclines bare on a green drape, gazing at her artist, and next to her is a bald lover, pawing her flawless flesh.