“Mary Austin has lived with the collection and has cared for the collection for more than three decades,” Gabriel Heaton, a books and manuscripts specialist at Sotheby’s, told AFP. The entire collection is being offered for sale by Mary Austin, a close friend and one-time fiancée of Mercury, to whom the singer bequeathed his estate. Works by Chagall, Dali and Picasso that adorned Mercury’s home were among the lots sold. Wednesday’s sale will be followed by two other live auctions and three online sales over the coming days. Other items being sold off at the auction include furniture, clothing, art works and knick-knacks. The door to his Garden Lodge home in west London sold for £412,750, far in excess of the £15,000-25,000 estimate. The auction kicked off with 20 minutes of bidding for the green door to Mercury’s garden on which fans scrawled tributes. “He was kind, generous and funny and it is a tragedy that AIDS took him from the world much too soon,” he added.
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