That is “more than three times the upper preliminary estimate,” said the Sotheby’s auction house on Friday. All 99 lots have sold, 3,150 bids were made. More than 1,000 people visited the previous visits in Vienna, Munich and Cologne. Jürgens’ concert piano by Wilhelm Schimmel became the most expensive piece.
The glass wing was Jürgens preferred musical instrument and accompanied it in many of his appearances. Together with a piano stool made of plexiglass and white leather, the estimation price here was 20,000 to 30,000 euros. In the end, an Austrian collector and fan paid 240,000 euros.
Expensive bathrobe
The interest in an iconic white terrybadema (personalized and signed by German footballers) was enormous, estimated at 150 to 200 euros. According to the auction house, an intensive bidwetting briefly extended the term for this lot for this lot shortly before the auction, so that the artist’s moisturizing trademark of the artist implemented a result of 26,400 euros after 54 – 176 times the lower estimation price.
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