Actress Brooke Shields is shown in September 2008. Tate Modern is now exhibiting a photo of her at 40 in a bikini, replacing a nude image of her as a child. (Reed Saxon/Associated Press)

A controversial nude photo of actress Brooke Shields at age 10 has been replaced by a photograph of the actress as an adult at a Tate Modern exhibition in London.

Shields is shown at age 40 wearing a bikini and posing with a motorcycle in the new image. She is wearing jewelry similar to what she wore in the earlier shot.

Like the photograph it replaced, titled Spiritual America, the work is by U.S. artist Richard Prince, who specializes in "re-photographs," or taking pictures of other people's images.

The original photograph of child star Shields in the nude was taken by Garry Gross, a U.S. photographer, in 1975.

"In consultation with the artist, Richard Prince, Tate has replaced Spiritual America 1983 with a later version of the work made by him in collaboration with Brooke Shields, Spiritual America IV 2005," the Tate said in a statement released Wednesday.

The Tate was forced to remove the image of a young Shields last week after London police began investigating whether it could be considered child pornography.

The exhibit was closed before its debut, but has been reopened. The Tate says it is in legal discussions over inclusion of the work in a catalogue about the show.

With files from The Associated Press