Audrey Hepburn's Annotated Breakfast at Tiffany’s Script | 2017 World Auction Record

A fitting celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s life, her annotated Breakfast at Tiffany’s script set a new auction record as collectors from around the world bid in The Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn, which soars over seven times the pre-sale estimate.
After a live auction that lasted for 10 hours and attracted bidders from 46 countries across six continents (including the highest online participation for any Christie’s sale in history), the final lot — a 1991 Steven Meisel portrait — sold in Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection (Part I). Like all the other lots in the auction, it soared well past its pre-sale estimate before realising £6,875, against an estimate of £2,000-3,000.
The top lot was Audrey Hepburn’s working script for the 1961 Paramount production, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The screenplay, which includes deleted scenes and extensive annotations in Hepburn’s own hand, sold for £632,750 / $846,619 against an estimate of £60,000-90,000, setting a new world auction record for a script. Hepburn’s working script for the Warner Bros. production My Fair Lady, dated 24 June, 1963, sold for £206,250 / $275,962 / €234,506 against an estimate of £30,000-50,000.
Find out more:
--
Subscribe to Christie's YouTube:
Sign up to Christie's Weekly:
Follow Christie's on:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:
Pinterest: