![]() The greatest exception to the low-key tenor is the handful of luxury watches (Newman was a horological icon). ![]() That extended to the things he surrounded himself with.” And I think people really appreciate that about him, which is why it’s not just all glitz and glamour. “He lived his life the way he wanted to live it, without a need to be posing as a movie star. Newman and Woodward, she pointed out, weren’t pretentious in the least. She and her team expect to be swarmed by Hollywood memorabilia fanatics, as well as general collectors of cool ephemera. Newman won the 24 Hours of Daytona race at the age of 70. Other items on sale include the jumpsuits Newman wore while tuning up his race cars Richard Nixon’s enemy list, which featured Newman, who was friends with Martin Luther King Jr as well as Rolex watches he wore as a hobbyist race-car driver. Photocopy of Nixon’s enemy list with his notes on Paul Newman’s ‘Radic-Lib causes’ ($150–250). “They were also hugely philanthropic and they were activists.” And, she pointed out, they were homebodies, content to nurse a martini at night among their ephemera salvaged from yard sales and the old film scripts they quartered with a paper cutter and recycled into notation paper. “We know them as movie stars and actors,” Jiménez said. The many sides of the hodgepodge on offer is evidence of the multifaceted aspect of Newman and Woodward’s lives. “And so they just felt that this was a good moment.” “They’ve been thinking about their parents’ legacy and how to do it justice, and what to do physically with all of the objects that they acquired,” said Jiménez. The proceeds will be split among the children, two of whom are daughters to Newman and his first wife, Jackie Witte. Newman died in 2008 and Woodward has been ill with Alzheimer’s for several years. Jiménez said that Sotheby’s has been working with Newman’s five daughters (his only son, Scott, died in 1978) on the event for many years. “They started at $100 or $200 and now we’re looking at $900 per lot.” “They are already at many multiples of their estimated price,” said Jiménez. Among the items on offer are the shackles from Cool Hand Luke, a pocketwatch and a selection of baseball hats, which were the actor’s staple accessory. In the world of celebrity auctions, she went on to explain, people “normally jump in at the last minute because nobody wants to bid it up in advance”.īut it’s a different story with the personal effects of Newman and Woodward, whose glamorous and passionate union is more or less unrivaled. “It’s already had tons of bids, which is unusual,” said Jiménez. When the Memorial Day Classic, a race car event at the Connecticut track that racing enthusiast Newman considered his home base, led to a flood of online clicks, the auction house decided to open the sale earlier than planned. The enthusiasm surrounding the sale has already been more than the auction house accounted for. Inside Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s barn in Westport, Connecticut. Their affinity for high-low extended to their collection of yard sale finds, as well as Newman’s small but much drooled-over stash of Rolex watches. Newman and Woodward, who primarily resided in Westport, Connecticut, but also had a home in New York City and, briefly, in Los Angeles, personified “shabby chic” before shabby chic was even a thing, said Jiménez. ![]() She logged on to a video call with the Guardian US having just learned that she was on the hook to bring an assortment of rare objects to the Today Show set the following day, as Hoda Kotb’s people were intrigued by Newman’s cabinet of curiosities. ![]() Overseeing the event is Mari-Claudia Jiménez, Sotheby’s managing director and worldwide head of business development, Global Fine Arts. In addition to Woodward’s wedding dress, an Academy award plaque, and mementoes from The Color of Money, the auction includes the thrift store find that was the centerpiece of what Woodward referred to as their “fuck hut” – a room of their own, if you will. The pair collected Americana and held on to the Hollywood memorabilia and bits and bobs of a life that managed to be unpretentious yet high-flying. The movie stars and enduring lovebirds met on the Broadway set of Picnic in 1953, and lived in what sounds like marital bliss for some 50 years.
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