Lot 64
64
MARLENE DIETRICH

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MARLENE DIETRICH
A late Regency stained satin birch and later painted spoonback chair, with pierced arched back and solid splat decorated with a medallion, flowers and trailing foliage in naturalistic colours, the padded seat on sabre legs, reduced, 32¾in. high, the chair marked with Paramount Studios invoice number A 5158 on an aluminium plate attached to the base of the frame and stencilled with artist's name Marlene Dietrich, the inventry number additionally inscribed beneath the seat; and a still from the 1948 Paramount film A Foreign Affair featuring Marlene Dietrich seated in the chair.
Provenance
Paramount Studios.

Featured in A Foreign Affair, Paramount Pictures, 1948 and other Dietrich and Paramount Films, including But Not For Me, 1959 and On The Double 1961.

Lot Essay

Marlene Dietrich is known to have particularly liked this chair - it was referred to as Marlene Dietrich's Chair by Paramount Studios props department and was catalogued as such in the Studios' props catalogue. Marlene Dietrich is thought to have particularly liked this chair as its low height and structure enabled her to stike a pose which showed her legs off to their best advantage - it was used in a number of her films.

Illustrated Architectural Digest - Academy Awards, Collector's Edition April 1990.

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