Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「The estate of Freddie Mercury, the iconic lead singer of the rock band Queen, is headed to auction later this year.⁠ ⁠ After the rock legend died in 1991, his former fiancé and lifelong friend Mary Austin kept everything he owned enshrined and largely unseen in his London home. On Wednesday, Austin said she was finally ready to sell off his belongings at Sotheby’s this fall. The London auction house said it will sell his estate during a weeklong series of sales starting Sept. 6.⁠ ⁠ The estate is expected to sell for at least $7.4 million, with prices sweeping from an estimated $500 for his tiny Tiffany mustache comb to an estimated $500,000 for James Jacques Tissot’s portrait of his mistress, “Type of Beauty,” the last piece of art the singer ever bought, the house said. Mercury amassed everything from Fabergé clocks to Victorian paintings and Japanese woodblock prints.⁠ ⁠ It remains to be seen if memorabilia collectors will go gaga for Mercury’s horde of rarely seen guitars, glam-rock costumes and sheafs of handwritten lyrics in the sale. Offerings will include his original lyrics to 1970s hit songs “Killer Queen” and “We Are the Champions.”⁠ ⁠ Fashion will play an outsize role in the exhibit and subsequent sale, including the singer’s velvety red crown and cloak worn during his finale rendition of “God Save the Queen” during his last tour with the band in 1986.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photos: Denis O'Regan; Sotheby's (inset)」4月26日 23時15分