Jerry Hall sheds art past
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Jerry Hall is selling several works of art from her private collection, including a portrait by Lucian Freud, as a way of letting go of a past she shared with Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger.
London auctioneer Sotheby's expects the 14 works, to be sold as part of its contemporary art sales on October 15 and 16, to fetch more than $2.5 million.
The highlight is Freud's Eight Months Gone, depicting Hall eight months pregnant with her fourth child Gabriel in 1997.
It was painted after the artist met Hall at a dinner party.
Also going under the hammer is Andy Warhol's Dollar Sign which the pop artist gave Hall in recognition of her help with the production of his television show, Warhol TV.
Works by Frank Auerbach, Robert Graham, Damien Hirst, David Bailey and RB Kitaj are also featured in the collection.
"Moving on - I think it's about letting go of the past," Hall, 54, said of the sale.
"At a certain age you just want to get rid of things. It's good to be in the moment and change. I'm not afraid of change."
Hall left Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry for Jagger in the late 1970s.
She married the Rolling Stone in 1990, to whom she had four children. The pair divorced in 1999.
Hall is currently starring in a stage adaptation of The Graduate in Perth.
- Reuters
Topics: popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, england, united-kingdom
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