For Bonhams first-ever Arizona Sale of Exceptional Motorcars on January 19th during the famous Scottsdale Car Week, Bonhams has teamed up with the exclusive AAA Four Diamond Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in the heart of Scottsdale.
Bonhams' highlights of the sale include Marlene Dietrich's former 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Transformable Convertible Sedan that is estimated to sell for $300,000 to $400,000. The screen goddess' personal car was a gift to her by director Josef von Sternberg of Paramount Studios in likely tribute to her role as 'femme fatale' Lola Lola in the classic German/English film Der Blaue Engel. Von Sternberg also collaborated with Dietrich in the movie Morocco, in which this very car is featured.
Another star car to grace the block is a 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow owned by pop culture icon Andy Warhol which is estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000. Warhol, perhaps the most famous artist of the 20th Century, whose paintings can command $100 million, purchased the Silver Shadow new and owned it until his untimely death, 13 years later, in 1987. Sold by the artist's family approximately a year after his passing, the Rolls-Royce has only had two subsequent owners and comes with a copy of the original New York Certificate of Title bearing Warhol's name.
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