{"id":117158,"date":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/first-day-of-elton-johns-auction-of-atlanta-home-contents-brings-8-million\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:02:30","slug":"first-day-of-elton-johns-auction-of-atlanta-home-contents-brings-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/first-day-of-elton-johns-auction-of-atlanta-home-contents-brings-8-million\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of Elton John&#8217;s auction of Atlanta home contents brings $8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-22\/M_EltonJohnatPianoRRHOF_122823.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If the first day is any indication, <strong>Elton John<\/strong> stands to make a bundle from the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.christies.com\/the-collection-of-sir-elton-john-goodbye-peachtree-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Christie&#8217;s auction<\/strong><\/a> of the contents of his Atlanta, Georgia, home.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the sale, February 21, brought in $8 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsandcollections.com\/christies-first-elton-john-sale-raises-6m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ArtsandCollections.com<\/strong><\/a>. All 49 lots were sold, with the big-ticket item being a work by famed artist <strong>Banksy<\/strong> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsandcollections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LOT-13_BANKSY-Flower-Thrower-Triptych-1280x672.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Flower Thrower Triptych<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. That went for more than $1.9 million. Another big item was Elton&#8217;s 1990 Bentley Continental, which sold for $441,000.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Elton&#8217;s signature silver leather platform boots from 1971 sold for $94,5000, more than 19 times\u00a0the estimate, while a pair of his equally signature sunglasses went for $22,680, more than 11 times the estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other lots were luxury wristwatches, including a Cartier watch that sold for more than $277,000, and a bunch of Versace silk shirts that went for more than $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>The auction continues Thursday, February 22, and Friday, February 23, and there are two other sessions, February 27 and February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Jennifer Pottheiser If the first day is any indication, Elton John stands to make a bundle from the Christie&#8217;s auction of the contents of his Atlanta, Georgia, home. The first day of the sale, February 21, brought in $8 million, according to ArtsandCollections.com. All 49 lots were sold, with the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/22\/first-day-of-elton-johns-auction-of-atlanta-home-contents-brings-8-million\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}