Elizabeth Taylor memorabilia and jewelry under auction at Christie’s

Elizabeth Taylor Memorabilia Up For Sale

Elizabeth Taylor may be dead but the grandeur of the Hollywood legend lives on with her jewelry, fashion and art collection and other memorabilia which is to be sold by renowned auctioneer Christie's.

Specifics about the items to be sold and estimates of the sale were not released by Christie's but the collection is expected to be sold for many millions of dollars.

Starting December 3, the collection will be featured at Christie's Rockefeller Center headquarters gallery in New York for ten days. Before the sale in December, it will travel for exhibitions around the world--Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris and Hong Kong--before Christie's sells Elizabeth Taylor's treasures.

Art works owned by the actress will be sold in London in February next year but the rest of the collection will be under auction in December.

The collection gives "a window into the world of a true icon, a rare woman who was at once an international film and fashion star, loving mother, successful businesswoman, and generous humanitarian," said Christie's Americas chairman Marc Porter.

Proceeds from the auction and related events will go to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation which the two-time Oscar award winner founded in 1993.

Although Christie's did not give details, it did say that the auction will be "one of the most remarkable jewelry events in auction history." When she died in March, Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry was estimated to be worth $100 million.

Elizabeth Taylor's collection is divided into jewelry, fashion, haute couture, decorative arts as well as modern and Impressionist art works.

Posted by Kade Quinn on Thursday June 30 2011, 11:19 AM EST. Ref: Reuters. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Entertainment, Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0