The product of the auction of the David Lynch collection could buy a lot of cherry pies: Julien’s auction on Wednesday with Turner Classic films collected $ 4.25 million in total for the succession of the emblematic filmmaker.
Nearly 450 articles were included in the auctions, including pieces from the television show “Twin Peaks” and films like “Mulholland Drive”, “Eraserhead” and “Dune”.
Chair of the director of Lynch, who made a stop at Variety Bureau on Monday on its way to action, $ 91,000 reported. The live auction has attracted hundreds of collectors and online fans and at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel.
“Julien’s and TCM had the privilege of representing this historic sale of white gloves celebrating the life and legacy of David Lynch,” said Catherine Williamson, Director General of Entertainment, Julien’s Auctions. “Each object of this collection has served as a window on the creative surreal and uncompromising world of Lynch – whether from its revolutionary films, its television work or its personal studio.
Some of the most notable sales included:
- The biggest article was a group of 11 scripts from Lynch’s unfinished film project, “Ronnie Rocket: The absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence”, which sold for $ 195,000.
- A group of three “Mulholland Drive” production scripts sold $ 104,000. Other articles “Mulholland Drive” have exceeded the auction, including the propellant menus for Winkie’s Diner used in the film ($ 7,800) and an original diptych featuring portraits of Naomi Watts and Laura Harring as Betty Elms and Rita roles in the film ($ 16,250).
- Copies of script from the “Twin Peaks” pilot episode, with the original name “Northwest Passage”, have been reduced, sold for $ 91,000.
- Lynch’s 35 mm personal printing of its first “Eraserhead” feature sold $ 52,000.
- Two taxidermia deer heads for Lynch’s house, one of which was seen in the first episode of season two of “Twin Peaks”, sold for $ 16,250.
- The Marzocco GS / 3 Expresso Machine for Coffee Director sold $ 45,500 and its mini electronic commercial espresso (A) MAZZER.
- Lynch furniture, such as a hot pink velvet sofa ($ 11,700), a pair of Domeau and Peres Sillencio club chairs in a limited edition of David Lynch, a coconut salon chair Herman Miller Herman Milman and Ottoman, around 1960, originally designed by George Nelson in 1956 ($ 2,2750).
