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A treasure trove Gene Hackman‘s personal artwork and prizes will be auctioned in November, nine months after the late actor’s death.
Bonhams International Auction House has secured more than 400 items from Hackman’s estate, including his own drawings and cinematic memorabilia.
The “very personal” collection also includes a number of trophies, including Hackman’s best performance Golden Globe Award for his role as the eccentric patriarch in “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
More than 400 items from the estate of the late actor Gene Hackman will be auctioned in November. (Vera Anderson/Getty Images)
The cast gilt metal globe on a marble base is valued at $3,000-$5,000. In addition, Hackman’s Golden Globe award for best performance for the 1992 film “Unforgiven” will also be auctioned.
“The Gene Hackman Collection: A Life in Art” offers buyers a “rare window into the mind of a highly disciplined and instinctive artist,” Bonhams said. A series of three single-owner auctions will be held next month, split between one live and two online sales.
GENE HACKMAN’S SANTA FE ESTATE CAN RAISE A LOT OF BUD
Potential buyers have the opportunity to bid on pieces created by the “Heartbreakers” actor, including still life drawings, self-portraits and handwritten notes with Hackman’s signature.
Visual art by Richard Diebenkorn is valued at over $300,000, while Milton Avery’s “Figure on the Jetty” will sell for $700,000. Wassily Kandinsky’s work is expected to fetch around $15,000.
Hackman’s personal Seiko stainless steel “Pepsi” quartz wristwatch should fetch somewhere between $600 and $800, and an Everett Raymond Kinstler portrait of the late star will retail for $2,000.
Annotated books from his library, scripts and posters will also be featured in the live and online auctions. Hackman pursued his love of painting after leaving Hollywood behind and immersing himself in Santa Fe culture.
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“Gene Hackman is an icon, as all film fans know. But because Gene Hackman was the neighbor here, he was just a guy from town,” she said. ‘He was very approachable. He and his wife were deeply intertwined with our community. She was a business owner. He was on the board of directors of our Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.”
“He invested in a handful of restaurants here in Santa Fe, so he was very much a foodie. He was an artist. He was an author. So basically his time in Santa Fe was toward the end of his career as Gene Hackman, the actor as we already knew him. But we were privileged to know him as the author, the artist and the foodie.”
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Betsy died as a result of hantavirus lung syndromethat is transmitted from animals to humans and is commonly found in rodents, the New Mexico Department of Health confirmed.
The hantavirus is characterized by “flu-like symptoms consisting of fever, muscle aches, coughing, sometimes vomiting and diarrhea that may progress to shortness of breath and cardiac or cardiac failure and pulmonary failure,” explained chief medical examiner Dr. Heather Jarrell during the press conference.
Gene Hackman died in February of heart disease. His wife, Betsy Hackman, died as a result of hantavirus. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Shortly after Gene and Betsy’s death, the Hackman Estate obtained a temporary restraining order against the release of information about Gene and Betsy’s deaths.
The order stated that the “Office of the Medical Examiner and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Officeincluding the agents, assigns and employees of any entity, are hereby temporarily prohibited from disclosing, through IPRA or other means, any photographs or videos containing images of the following: the body of Gene Hackman, the body of Betsy Arakawa-Hackman, the interior of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hackman.
In addition, “all lapel video footage,” including the Hackmans’ bodies or images of “depictions of any kind” deceased animals at the Hackman residence,” was added to the temporary restraining order.
