![]() “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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