Elizabeth Taylors collection of jewellery, art and designer clothing will be exhibited around the world, Christie's auction house announced yesterday.The three-month tour will start in September and include stops in Moscow, London and Dubai before the items are sold at an auction in New York reports The Daily Telegraph.
Marc Porter, Christie's Americas chairman and president, said the exhibitions would provide "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."
In keeping with Taylor's humanitarian work a portion of the proceeds from the exhibition admissions, events and publications related to the sales will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, which the actress founded in 1991.
Christie's did not release details on specific items in the auction or estimates of what they would fetch but past sales of collections of other famous people have sold for many millions.
Taylor's jewelry is expected to draw intense interest. Christie's described the sale as "one of the most remarkable jewelry events in auction history." Taylor died in March at age 79 of congestive heart failure while surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been in hospital for about six weeks. Known for her love of diamonds, the actress owned some of the world's most expensive stones.
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