Sotheby's preparing to sell Freddie Mercury's private collection after exhibition
The Queen frontman's collection, which has been left largely untouched at his former West London home in the three decades since his death, will be exhibited publicly in the British capital for a month from August 4
Prior to that in June, highlights from the ensemble will go on tour to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, as well as London.
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More than 1,500 items from Freddie Mercury's private collection, including costumes, unique objects and previously unseen handwritten draft lyrics, will be auctioned later this year, Sotheby's announced on Wednesday.
The Queen frontman's collection, which has been left largely untouched at his former west London home in the three decades since his death, will be exhibited publicly in the British capital for a month from August 4.
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Prior to that in June, highlights from the ensemble will go on tour to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, as well as London.
The vast array of items—spanning clothing, paintings, and objects from Mercury's everyday life—will then go under the hammer in six London sales expected to fetch at least £6 million ($7.5 million).
They are being sold by Mary Austin, one of the icon's closest friends, who has cared for them at his former home—Garden Lodge, in London's upmarket Kensington district —ever since he died in 1991.
