The Oscar-winning filmmaker is auctioning some of his Bleak House treasures, including mementos from ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Pacific Rim.’
Guillermo del Toro isn’t just an Oscar-winning filmmaker—he’s a diehard fan of all things horror, especially monsters. He famously has an entire dwelling, dubbed Bleak House, to contain his wonderfully grim collection of art, artifacts, props, and other covetable items, but even someone with del Toro’s generous resources understands the importance of downsizing from time to time. An upcoming auction will serve to give some of his treasures new homes.
In a Heritage Auctions press release (with an accompanying video interview), del Toro explained why he’s trimming a small corner of his Bleak House inventory. “I have collected for decades,” he said. “I believe that collecting is not owning. Collecting is protecting, a sacred duty, being a keeper of a flame, an acolyte.”
But the recent Los Angeles wildfires made him expand his thinking on that front. “This predicament has made me aware of the impossible size of the collection and the responsibility to share this meticulously curated treasure trove with others who might accept the vow to save these pieces of culture and beauty for the generations that follow.
