NEW YORK (AP) - The late cabaret singer Bobby Short's grand piano sold for $132,000 US in an auction of his personal effects, Christie's said.

The piano, a 1971 black lacquer Bechstein with a pre-sale estimate of $30,000 to $40,000 adorned Short's three-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's East Side. Other top sellers Thursday were works of art: a $60,000 oil painting, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, attributed to Olga Sacharoff, and Bill Traylor's Black Cow, a work in crayon and gouache on paper, which went for $28,000.

Among the other items sold Thursday were a monogrammed Cartier silver ice bucket, which fetched $18,000, and an art deco wrought iron fire screen, which went for $12,000, the auction house said. All prices included a buyer's premium.

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