![]() ![]() ![]() More than 140,000 visitors from around the world queued up outside the elegant auction house to take a tour. The green door covered in hand-painted love notes from fans who made a pilgrimage to the house in the tony Kensington section of London sold for an eye-popping 412,750 pounds ($521,000).Īll of the proceeds of the sale of a Cartier onyx and diamond ring given to Mercury by his friend, Elton John, that sold for 273,000 pounds ($344,000) were to go to the “Rocket Man” singer’s AIDS charity.Īrt sold at the auction included prints by Pablo Picasso (190,500 pounds $240,000), Salvador Dalí (48,260 pounds $60,900) and Marc Chagall (63,500 $80,000), antique furniture and numerous cat figurines.įor the past month, fans of Mercury who couldn’t afford those kind of prices - or just wanted to see his high-top Adidas, diamond brooches, or a sequined jacket - could view them for free in Sotheby’s galleries. ![]() The auction opened with the sale of the graffiti-tagged door to the garden of Mercury’s home that quickly blew past the high estimate of 25,000 pounds ($31,250) projected before the sale and led to a bidding war that lasted nearly 20 minutes. ![]()
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