Last Updated on 08/06/2023 by てんしょく飯
A grand piano, handwritten lyrics, and lavish costumes of Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991 at the age of 45, are on display ahead of an auction next month. More than 1,400 items once owned by Freddie are on display to the public free of charge at Sotheby’s in London.
Visitors will be able to see everything about Freddie’s remarkable life from his childhood to his passing.
At the exhibition, visitors will be able to see Japanese silk kimonos and Freddie’s collection of clothing, as well as detailed seating charts, menus, and invitations for dinner parties he hosted, his art collection, numerous cat figurines, and even old school textbooks.
Thomas Williams, furniture and decorative arts specialist at Sotheby’s, said, “Freddie was a hoarder and never threw anything away. You will see everything about Freddie’s amazing life from his childhood to his passing,” he said.
These items are arranged thematically in 15 galleries at Sotheby’s and range from Japanese art and figurines to a recreation of the dining room of his Kensington home, the Garden Lodge. Williams added, “Freddie was a great entertainer, but that was true not only on stage, but also at dinner parties and gatherings.
The vast collection was entrusted to Mary Austin, a close friend of Freddie’s, and was stored untouched in her London home for 30 years until she decided to sell it. The black grand piano has an estimated bid of 2 to 3 million pounds, and the handwritten lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody” have an estimated bid of 800,000 to 1.2 million pounds, or 145 million to 218 million yen. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Mary has made the difficult decision to sell Freddie’s belongings for her own living arrangements, and she will keep the personal gifts she received from Freddie and the photos she took with the deceased.
Freddie Mercury A World of His Own” runs through September 5.
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