29 January 2021
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The 55-year-old founding member of the legendary rap rock group has announced the sale of 15 items to raise funds for the Good Eats organisation in the US, which supplies free meals to school kids who would otherwise go hungry.
The Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond Part II sale hosted by Sotheby s includes Mike s MTV Video Music Award moonman for Best Hip Hop Video for Intergalactic and the Gold disc for their 1896 debut album, Licensed to Ill .
Mike - whose full name is Michael Diamond - decided to sell off the items after his mother, Hester Diamond, passed away.
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When it comes to collecting art, nobody did it with more daring and more gusto than Hester Diamond. The lifelong New Yorker, who was a renowned art collector, art dealer, and interior designer, was known for pairing modern art with antique furniture and vice versa in her later years to brilliant effect.
Pieces from her formidable art collection are coming to market January 29 via a Sotheby s auction titled Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond Part 1. Several works, including an early Bernini sculpture, are quite rare and could fetch record-breaking prices. The high estimate for all 60 lots, which includes contemporary works as well as Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculpture, is more than $35 million.