Sotheby's auction

[egret]

Did people have feelings or thoughts about the upcoming Sotheby's auctions?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own


I am hoping to buy an exhibit catalog.

They're doing an exhibit of some of the things at Sotheby's NY in early June and I'll try to go. 

I feel sort of sad that everything's being auctioned off instead of being made into an archive, because I think Freddie was a great artist and deserves an archive, but of course there is money to be made. 

Comments

[heartonsnow]

Garden Lodge shd become a shrine to Freddie with all his stuff in.

Cloud Cuckoo Land is extra cluody today!!!

[egret]

It could have been done up like Graceland in Memphis, where you pay to take tours and there are exhibits of his stage costumes etc.

But I guess they have their own management plans.

They are not selling the actual house which makes me think his ashes ARE buried there after all.

[heartonsnow]

I read somewhere that his family did a Farsee funeral but now I realise you cannot believe everything you read.

I would dearly love to walk around Freddie's house and see all his posessions.

[egret]

They did do but that ended in cremation and his ashes were left to Mary to put somewhere and she never said where she put them. People wanted a spot to visit and leave flowers and whatnot and apparently Freddie did not want that chaos. So some people have thought (in various biographies) that she put the ashes in his garden at Garden Lodge but no one really knows (except Mary).

[heartonsnow]

I forgot or never knew she had the ashes.

PS

[heartonsnow]

By the way,did you change the theme on here? Finding yellow text on blue background hard to read but not sure it was that colour before? x

Re: PS

[egret]

I had not changed it; our eyes have aged. I have now changed it to purple. Is that better or shall I change it to black? Or get rid of the blue background? All are welcome to make formatting suggestions. I'm not much at designing things.

[heartonsnow]

I thought I shd mention it as most of Freddie's fans are old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Purple is much better xx

[egret]

Updating this to say I saw someone else’s photos from the NY exhibit on Insta or Reddit. Just the photos of his empty shoes made me feel sad. I realized that seeing it in person would make me cry and I decided not to go and traumatize myself.