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Nearly $100,000 for Elton John’s monogrammed silver boots and around $2 million for a triptych by street artist Banksy from his collection: the music icon’s personal items brought in almost $8 million at auction Wednesday in New York.
Christie s auction house is running a series of eight sales, both in person and online, through February 28 for the collection of the 76-year-old s belongings, including an ivory and gold glam rock jumpsuit from the early 1970s designed by Annie Reavey, which sold for $12,600.
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This is the second highest ever price paid for a Picasso painting, the highest being a painting called Les femmes d Alger, that was sold for over 179 million in 2015.