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Dame Edna's iconic yellow glasses worn by the late entertainer Barry Humphries sell for a whopping £37k at auction
A pair of Dame Edna Everage glasses worn by the late entertainer Barry Humphries have sold for a whopping £37,800 at auction today.
A depiction of Barry Humphries painting at Shoalhaven by the renowned Australian painter Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, who died in 1999, sold for £32,760 over three times the pre-sale high estimate of £10,000. Benedict Winter, associate director of private and iconic collections at Christie's London, said: 'Barry Humphries is best remembered for his comedic genius, but behind his famous figure was a true polymath and connoisseur.' As Dame Edna he was one of British talk show host Michael Parkinson's most popular regular guests and the gladioli-clutching matron even featured on the US comedy drama Ally McBeal.
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