This handout image supplied by Christie’s New York on January 11, 2024 reveals Elton John’s grand piano (estimate $30,000-50,000). Music icon Elton John has put quite a lot of private objects up for public sale at Christie’s in New York, together with monogrammed silver leather-based platform boots and a triptych by avenue artist Banksy. HANDOUT / CHRISTIE’S AUCTION HOUSE / AFP
NEW YORK—Music icon Elton John has put quite a lot of private objects up for public sale at Christie’s in New York, together with monogrammed silver leather-based platform boots, a grand piano and a triptych by avenue artist Banksy.
Many of the objects come from John’s former residence in Atlanta, a apartment on Peachtree Street that was lately offered, the public sale home stated Thursday, Jan. 11.
Starting on Feb. 21, Christie’s is organizing a collection of eight gross sales, each in particular person and on-line, for the gathering of the 76-year-old’s belongings. They embrace an unlimited array of Versace shirts and residential decor to a Julian Schnabel portrait of John.
John, who wrapped up his farewell tour final 12 months, can also be providing an ivory and gold glam rock jumpsuit from the early Nineteen Seventies designed by Annie Reavey, and pictures from the likes of Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton.
John purchased the Atlanta residence shortly after getting sober in 1990, Christie’s stated, because the singer discovered “solace and assist within the heat neighborhood and restoration services” there.
“This extraordinary assortment not solely showcases a various array of exceptional objects that encapsulate Elton’s distinctive life, work, and artwork but in addition gives our shoppers with a glimpse into the profound affect that the town of Atlanta had on him,” stated Tash Perrin, deputy chairman of Christie’s Americas.
John constructed the gathering together with his husband David Furnish. It additionally options works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and Damien Hirst.
The Banksy work, “Flower Thrower Triptych,” is the costliest piece on provide through the gross sales, with an estimated worth of $1-1.5 million.
The non-public collections of popular culture icons have change into an everyday characteristic on the world’s prime public sale homes.
Final September, 1000’s of things that belonged to late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury offered for 40 million kilos ($50.4 million), Sotheby’s stated.
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