Thursday, February 9, 2012

Paintings, jewelry and fashions belonging to the late Elizabeth Taylor have sold for more than $183 million.

Christie's auction house says all of the 1,817 lots offered sold at auctions in New York and London, some at 50 times their pre-sale estimates.

The top lot was Vincent van Gogh's landscape "Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Remy," which once hung in Taylor's Bel Air home. It sold for $16 million, including the buyer's premium.

Hollywood legend Taylor died in March aged 79, and Christie's has been selling her belongings in a series of auctions. New York sales of jewelry, fashion and memorabilia in December raised more than $156 million.

A sale of 38 paintings in London on Tuesday and Wednesday raised $24.6 million.