Will you choose #HepburnAtChristies or #VivienAtSothebys? This September, Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn go head to head when the actresses’ personal collections are sold on consecutive days at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in London, prime souvenir shopping for screen star relic hunters. On 26 September, Sotheby’s offer 250 items from Leigh’s life, a broad mix of paintings, jewellery, couture, books and furniture, from the homes she shared with her husband, Laurence Olivier. Estimates in the £500,000 sale range from £100 to £100,000, and highlights include a sketch of Leigh by Augustus John from 1942 (est £5,000-£7,000) and her personal copies of the script and book of Gone With The Wind (est £2,500-£3,500/£5,000-£7,000). While the Leigh sale includes around 45 works, Christie’s Hepburn sale the following day is more memorabilia heavy—everything from a selection of her, rather beaten up, ballet pumps (yours for upwards of £1,500 a pair), to memorabilia such as Hepburn’s annotated script for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (est £60,000-£80,000) and a selection of portraits by photographers such as Bud Fraker, Cecil Beaton, and Steven Meisel. An accompanying online sale runs from 19 September until 3 October.
