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European Furniture & Decorative Arts
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- Sale 6487
Live
| Chicago
Apr 23 | 9:00 AM CDT
Live
| Chicago
Sale 6487
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
Bliss Hebert lived a life filled with music, beginning with his study of piano at age three. By five, he appeared in solo recitals, and when he grew older trained as a concert pianist in New York and Paris. He enjoyed an incredibly prolific and successful career, staging over three hundred productions of one hundred operas. A highlight of his career was his long collaboration with Igor Stravinsky, beginning with his direction of The Rake’s Progress at the Santa Fe Opera, where he was a founding member. Hebert also worked extensively with his husband, stage designer Allen Charles Klein, to create more than fifty opera productions. Hebert and Klein lived together in Miami, New York, and France. Freeman’s will present their collection across three auctions this Spring: The Collector’s Cabinet on March 11, European Furniture and Decorative Arts on April 23, and Interiors, Including the Estate of Bliss Edmund Hebert on May 8.
Overall sturdy and ready to place condition. Scattered old nicks, scuffs, scrapes, and dark marks. Rubbed and chipped losses to the ebonized surfaces. Cracking and bubbling to the veneer on the top and sections of fill and overpainting. Age splits to either side of the case, some of which are filled. Brasses are replacements. There is a key which works in the top drawer but does not fit the lower two drawers. Drawers open and close smoothly. Scattered patches and fill on the drawer fronts. The proper left side of the top drawer with an added shim to the side to square off the drawer. Additional images are available upon request.
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