1/27/2024 0 Comments Human fall flat perfectionist![]() ![]() They lived together for six years until Mercury told her he thought he was bisexual. Mercury's Yamaha Grand piano, on which he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and many other hits (estimate: £2m-£3m)Ĭredit: Barney Hindle, courtesy of Sotheby'sĪustin and Mercury met in 1969. The highlight will be the Evening Auction on 6 September, where items include the Yamaha baby grand piano on which Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and other hits, the working lyrics for that song, written on a British Midlands Airways 1974 calendar, an assortment of his most famous stage costumes and the original green door to the grounds of Garden Lodge, covered in graffiti and dedications left by fans following his death. Staggering in its size and range, it casts a new and fascinating light on Mercury not simply as a collector but as a connoisseur of the arts, reflecting his various passions for 19th-century portraiture and French and Italian furniture, Japanese art, ceramics and textiles, art deco and nouveau objects, for Erté and Goya, Picasso and Miró, Fabergé, Tiffany and Daum. ![]() It is one of the biggest single-owner sales to come under the hammer in years, surpassed only by the sales of the collections of Elton John and Andy Warhol (both 1988) and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (1997). This September, the entire contents of the house will come up for auction at Sotheby’s in London – some 35,000 items in 1,500 lots that will be sold across six separate auctions. Mary Austin and Freddie Mercury in 1984 Austin today, photographed by Sophia Spring Courtesy of Sotheby's (L) and Sophia Spring (R)
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