Robin Williams memorabilia auction smashes pre-sale estimates, raising US$6.1 million
Stand-out items were a watercolour painting from the Good Will Hunting that sold for US$90,000 and a Banksy piece that fetched US$735,000
Art, film memorabilia and personal effects owned by the late actor Robin Williams and his wife fetched US$6.1 million at auction in New York on Thursday, four years after his death, Sotheby’s said.
The Oscar-winner, film veteran, stand-up comedian and television star was one of Hollywood’s most popular entertainers whose death in August 2014 triggered an outpouring of emotion the world over.
More than 2,000 fans and collectors from across the globe registered to bid for some 300 works owned by Williams and his second wife, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams, Sotheby’s said.
The most expensive lot was Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli’s Der San Salvathor, which sold for US$795,000, the auction house said.
Stand-out items included a watercolour from the film Good Will Hunting that sold for US$90,000 and street artist Banksy’s Happy Choppers from 2006, which fetched US$735,000.
Williams won an Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting.
