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05.10.11

The Wayne auction, put on by Heritage, will be held on October 6 at the The Hyatt Regency in Century City with previews on the 3rd, 4th and 5th. An internet-only auction will complete the sale on October 7. Presumably entrance to the preview is free (except for parking), but a catalogue is for sale for fifty dollars and a DVD is a bargain at 19.95 ( HA.COM .)

The Wayne family has waited over thirty years since his passing, but the family of Elizabeth Taylor didn’t need six months to think about what they were putting up for sale. Just the same, the Taylor auction is one of the most elaborately promoted of any on record, complete with a eight-city international preview tour.

Yes, there is the 33-carat diamond ring from Richard Burton, the diamond tiara Mike Todd gave her, and over 200 other pieces of “jaw dropping” jewelry. Those fabulous jewels will be sold over the first two of the four day auction to be held at New York’s Rockefeller Center beginning December 13. Costumes and memorabilia will go on the 16th and her artwork, which includes a Degas, a Renoir and a Van Gogh, will be sold in London in February.  But first the world tour has already been to Moscow and London and is coming to Los Angeles at MOCA at the Design Center from Oct. 13 to 16. A limited number of tickets at twenty dollars each are being sold at the Christies site for $20 a head, with part of the profit reportedly going to Taylor’s AIDs foundation. Then the preview collection will hit Dubai, Geneva, Paris and Hong Kong before going to New York for for ten days before the gavel comes down. 

Source: Indie Wire (blog)