Five months after late auteur David Lynch died at age 78, the filmmaker’s personal collections will be put up for auction by his estate. Lynch suddenly passed January 17, 2025.
Now, Lynch fans can purchase part of the late director’s holdings with the David Lynch Collection auction through Julien’s. The auction begins June 18 at 10 a.m. PST in Los Angeles, with highlights including Lynch’s personal props from his past projects, unfinished screenplays, and a personalized director’s chair. Bids are already rolling in before the auction actually opens: “Mulholland Drive” prop menus for Winkie’s Sunset Blvd, for example, are listed at $2,250, with an annotated script for Lynch’s shelved film “Ronnie Rocket: The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence” tracking to go for more than $2,500.
A collection of six signed posters, including one for Lynch’s final film “Inland Empire” and three for “Lost Highway,” are also among the auction items. Another coveted listing is no doubt the second draft of the pilot episode script for “Twin Peaks,” originally titled “Northwest Passage.” The script is dated January 23, 1988 and has “Northwest Passage” crossed out on the title page, with “Twin Peaks” written over it. A “Twin Peaks” crew gift is also for grabs: The flannel-lined denim LL Bean shirt in a men’s size medium has the words “Twin Peaks ’90” on the chest.
After Lynch’s passing, his frequent collaborator Naomi Watts told the Los Angeles Times that she and Laura Dern were ready to collaborate again with Lynch in late November 2024. “We had a beautiful lunch at his house,” Watts said of herself, Lynch, and Dern. “I knew he’d been unwell but he was in great spirits. He wanted to go back to work — Laura and I were like, ‘You can do it! You could work from the trailer.’ He was not, in any way, done. I could see the creative spirit alive in him.”
“It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” his family wrote on an official Facebook page. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”
