Music icon Elton John has put a spread of non-public 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 road artist Banksy.
A lot of the objects come from John’s former residence in Atlanta, a condominium on Peachtree Street that not too long ago offered, the public sale home mentioned Thursday.
Beginning February 21, Christie’s is organizing a sequence of eight gross sales, each in individual and on-line, to gather the 76-year-old man’s belongings. They embody a variety of Versace shirts and residential decor to a portrait of John by Julian Schnabel.
John, who concluded his farewell tour final 12 months, additionally gives an early 1970s ivory and gold glam rock jumpsuit designed by Annie Reavey, and images by artists together with Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton.
John purchased the Atlanta residence shortly after getting sober in 1990, Christie’s mentioned, because the singer discovered “consolation and help within the heat group and restoration services” there.
“This extraordinary assortment not solely shows a various vary of notable objects that encapsulate Elton’s distinctive life, work and artwork, but additionally provides our purchasers perception into the profound affect town of Atlanta had on him,” he mentioned. Tash Perrin, deputy president director of Christie’s Americas.
John constructed the gathering together with her husband David Furnish. It additionally options works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and Damien Hirst.
Banksy’s “Flower Thrower Triptych” is the most costly piece provided in the course of the sale, with an estimated worth of between $1 million and $1.5 million.
Private collections of popular culture icons have grow to be a daily characteristic of the world’s main public sale homes.
Final September, 1000’s of things belonging to late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury offered for 40 million kilos ($50.four million), Sotheby’s mentioned.