Bonhams, New York · Guardian Art
Diane Keaton's archive and artworks go to auction
Bonhams presents the estate of late actor Diane Keaton, featuring decades of personal collages, photographs, and memorabilia spanning her creative life. The sale includes a sprawling 8x30-foot collage alongside ephemera and signed photographs.
The auction house's sale in West Hollywood, traveling to New York, documents Keaton's parallel practice as a visual artist and curator of personal significance. Her collage work incorporates photographs from Parisian photo booths, archival images of Victorian women, vintage gambling den menus, and portraits of friends and collaborators. Specialists uncovered extensive ephemera, including signed photographs from co-stars like Al Pacino, buried beneath the monumental wall-sized assemblage that occupied her Sullivan Canyon residence. This body of work reveals a sophisticated visual intelligence informing her iconic photographic and fashion practices.
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