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2001 Christie's 12 Mar The Duquette Collections L.A.This post auction catalog consists of 330 lots, all illustrated, all color, with all lots described in detail. When Tony Duquette, the man who designed homes for J. Paul Getty, the Duchess of Windsor and many Hollywood stars, the man who created costumes and sets for Broadway productions (Camelot), movies (Kismet), operas and ballets (The Magic Flute and Salome), the man who provided Sharon Stone with fantastical pieces of jewelry he had made by hand, died in 1999 at the age of 85, he left four houses full of thousands of the most decadent furnishings and off-the-wall collectibles ever artistically assembled under one—rather several roofs.
Items that belonged to other designers or were made by them also feature prominently in the sale: a Louis XV polychrome tabouret from Elsie de Wolfe’s ballroom in the Villa Trianon in Versailles and a pair of Louis XV–style black-painted slipper chairs from her Beverly Hills house, matching Neoclassical-style faux malachite-painted gilt cocktail tables from James Pendleton and Agnes Moorehead and a circa 1950 Bill Haines sofa.
Upon his return from Europe in 1947, Duquette continued his works for private clients and for the theatre and motion pictures. In 1949 Duquette married the beautiful and talented artist Elizabeth Johnstone at a private ceremony at “Pickfair” with Mary Pickford attending as matron of honor and Buddy Rogers standing as Tony’s best man. The reception that followed was attended by the who’s who of Hollywood including Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Vincent Minnelli, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Marion Davies. The young couple, whose particular talents complimented each other’s, collaborated on many design commissions together and were sought out as an attractive addition to the Hollywood social scene.
Tony Duquette presented his first exhibition at the Mitch Liesen Gallery in Los Angeles and shortly thereafter was asked to present his works at the Pavilion de Marsan of the Louvre Museum, Paris. This was an unprecedented exhibition as Duquette was the first American artist to have been so honored with a one man showing at the Louvre. Returning from a year in France, where he received design commissions from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Alsatian industrialist Commandant Paul Louis Weiller, Duquette was honored with a one man showing of his works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This was one of many one man museum exhibitions in which Duquette’s works would be exhibited, including exhibitions at the M.H. de Young Museum and Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, The California Museum of Science and Industry and Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, The El Paso Museum of Art, The Santa Barbara Art Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, as well as one man exhibitions in Dallas, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1956, with his wife Elizabeth, who he affectionately called “Beegle” (a nickname derived from the industry of the bee and the soaring poetry of the eagle), he opened a salon in the converted silent film studios of actress Norma Talmadge. The Tony Duquette Studios have since become legendary as the setting where the Duquettes entertained their celebrated and talented friends such as Arthur Rubenstein, Aldus Huxley, Jascha Heifitz and Greta Garbo.
During the 1960’s and 70’s the Duquettes continued to travel extensively, working in Austria, Ireland and France as well as New York, Dallas, San Francisco, South America and the Orient. Duquette created elegant interiors for Doris Duke, Norton Simon and J. Paul Getty, a castle in Ireland for Elizabeth Arden and a penthouse in the Hawaiian Islands. His interiors for commercial and public spaces are well known, notably the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Sheraton Universal Hotel, and sculptures and tapestries for the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Chicago as well as the Los Angeles Music Center and the University of California at Los Angeles. Other design triumphs in films and theatre include “Yolanda and the Thief”, “Lovely to Look At”, “Kismet” and “The Ziegfeld Follies” for MGM, as well as “Jest of Cards”,
Beauty and the Beast” and “Dance Concertants” for the San Francisco Ballet. Operas for which Duquette has designed both costumes and settings include “Der Rosenkavelier”, “The Magic Flute” and “Salome”. His designs for the original Broadway production of “Camelot” won Duquette the coveted “Tony Award” for “Best Costume”.
His monumental work of environmental art “Our Lady Queen of the Angels”, which was created as a gift to the people of Los Angeles in honor of that city’s bicentennial, was seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors over a three year period, at the California State Museum of Science and Industry at Exposition Park.
In 1979 the Duquettes formed the Anthony and Elizabeth Duquette Foundation for the Living Arts, a non-profit public foundation whose purpose is to present museum quality exhibitions of artistic, scientific and educational value to the public. Past exhibitions have been presented by the foundation at California’s historic Mission San Fernando and through the Los Angeles Unified School District including “Designs for the Theatre”, “The Art of the Found Object” and “The Fabric Mosaic Tapestry”. The foundation has sponsored exhibitions and lectures on the decorative arts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Texas in conjunction with museums and other foundations and on the university level through the U.C.L.A. extension series. A second “Celebrational Environment” was presented in San Francisco honoring Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of that city. To house the exhibition Tony Duquette purchased an abandoned synagogue which he restored and renamed “The Duquette Pavilion of Saint Francis”. These “Celebrational Environments”, which were hailed as an invention of an art form, consisted of monumental 28 feet tall metal sculptures and giant (20 X 20 foot) jewel studded fabric mosaic tapestries. These works, along with the collections of a lifetime and other original works of art, were destroyed in a tragic fire, which completely destroyed the Duquette Pavilion in 1989.
On September 9, 1999 at 3:40pm and after a lifetime of honors and acclaim, Tony Duquette succumbed to complications after suffering a heart attack at U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 85 years old. As per his wishes his design business continues under the direction of his business partner Hutton Wilkinson, President and Artistic Director for Tony Duquette Studios, Inc. Shipping is $6.00 in U.S. We ship anywhere in the World. Catalog is in excellent condition. We accept Credit Card Payments . Please call to place an order, and to get an update of other sales catalogs in this category or any other. Office hours are(Monday-Friday) 9:00-2:00 P.M. To fax an order call . Out of U.S . Or e-mail us at TAKE 10 % OFF FOR 3 CATALOGS-15% OFF FOR 4 AND 20 % OFF FOR 5 OR MORE. Please email us for any requests or catalogs you do not see in our inventory. This text and images are the property of The Catalog Kid. We accept Paypal payments made to
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 9460_ |
| Condition:
mint |
Year:
1999
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