Diane Keaton’s belongings are going up for auction, including the Annie Hall script, her signature bowler hat, furniture from her home, and fashion pieces.
Looking for unique pieces? Fashion and film fans should check out the auctions of the home and wardrobe of Annie Hall, The Godfather, First Wives Club, and Something’s Gotta Give actor Diane Keaton.
Diane Keaton very much rocked her own style.
She loved a masculine look and often topped off an outfit with a hat or a tie.
When she was resting, thespian parlance for not working, she really didn’t sit on her laurels.
Instead, she had several hobbies that she indulged in. She liked to write, to take photographs and to buy and renovate houses.
Her love of real estate began early. She used to follow her father around to open house viewings, she told Wine Spectator magazine. He was an estate agent.
Her first buy was a Spanish Colonial Revival–style property in the middle of Bel-Air that, when she sold it in 2005, was a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom pad.
She got $16.5 million for it, according to Architectural Digest.
Next up was a historic $7.5 million mansion perched on a bluff in Laguna Beach.
With views of the Pacific Ocean, the waterfront property resurfaced the 4,158-square-foot property resurfaced on the market more than a decade later in 2019, seeking $15 million, according to the Orange County Register.
Also in 2007, she bought the Alfred Newman House, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
Set on 1.4 acres in the Rustic Canyon area of the Pacific Palisades for $9.1 million, she sold it for $10.75 million just two years later.
Around 2007, she bought a Beverly Hills Spanish Colonial Revival structure around a two-story courtyard with a fountain that she paid out $8.1 million for.
A total refurbishment and the addition of about 45 square metres, she sold it to Glee creator Ryan Murphy for an undisclosed amount in 2010.
In 2012, a Cape Cod–style home in the Pacific Palisades.
She paid $5.6 million for the relatively new pad, which was completed in 2009. She made some cosmetic changes and listed the home for $6.995 million in 2015.
In 2017, she began the redesign of her final residence, the eponymous house at the centre of her third book, The House That Pinterest Built.
Situated in Sullivan Canyon, the home was quite literally the amalgamation of inspirational photos Keaton collected over the years. Some of these are auction lots.
She continued to flip homes, moving outside of LA to buy a historic Barrio Viejo home in Tucson, Arizona, for $1.5 million in 2018.
Two years later, it was put right back onto the market for $2.6 million in 2020 amid the pandemic.
Diane Keaton left her mark on more than just film.
A passionate preservationist and champion of Los Angeles architecture, six months after her death, aged 79, a curation of her clothing, books, home furnishings, and movie memorabilia is headed to auction, divided across four sales at Bonhams this May and June.
Together, the sales are called the Diane Keaton Collection. Tailored and Timeless is the first and runs from Sunday, May 31, to Tuesday, June 9th, online from New York and includes some of her signature sartorial pieces, like a polka‑dot skirt and belt, worn both on screen in And So It Goes and at ICP Presents the 24th Annual Infinity Awards in New York in 2008.
It has an estimated cost of $400 – 600. The same estimate is given to a Baron tall black hat with black ribbon, and to an on-trend Bottega Veneta leopard print coat.
At Home with Diane is the second online sale and runs from Monday, June 1st to Wednesday, June 10th in Los Angeles. It will see over 150 pieces of furniture, interiors and decorative objects from Keaton’s residences, including her Sullivan Canyon home. Highlights include a pair of Monterey iron-mounted stained wood settees, estimated at $1,200 – $1,800; a Monterey iron and rope-mounted old, stained wood settee with a hinged side table and striped Cushions, estimated at $1,000 – $1,500, and something for real fans, a metal step ladder curated with a signature black top hat and decorations, with a similar estimate. Other notable lots feature California Hillside pottery, with estimates ranging from $800 to $4,000, and Diné (Navajo) pictorial weavings ranging from $400 to $2,000.
The final sale, Chapters of an Edited Life, runs online in LA from Monday, June 1 to Thursday, June 11th, presents Keaton’s personal art, both photography and collage, alongside a finely curated selection of books drawn from Keaton’s personal library. It includes photographs by the actor, three photobooth photographs, 1970s, estimated at $400 - 600; while a mixed media collage on paper, Face Lift-Off, has a similar estimate.
Taking place in New York on June 8th, the Architecture of an Icon sale includes a classic black bowler hat, estimated at $400 – 600. A Gucci sequin suit and beret worn to the LACMA Gala, estimated at $2,000 – 3,000, and the Ralph Lauren houndstooth two‑piece suit and overcoat ensemble worn to the 2020 Academy Awards and featured on the cover of her 2024 book, Fashion First.
It includes a pair of collages, 1970s, estimated at $600 – 800, and an assembled selection from The Wall, Keaton’s large-scale bulletin board at her Sullivan Canyon home, which featured photography, small collages, and things collected, estimated at $8,000 – $12,000.
Film fans will want to view the original, untitled script for 1977’s Annie Hall.
For more information on the upcoming sales, please visit bonhams.com/dianekeaton
