Lot 122
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A Clockwork Orange, 1971 Stanley Kubrick
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A Clockwork Orange, 1971 Stanley Kubrick

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A Clockwork Orange, 1971 Stanley Kubrick
A prop bust of Beethoven, the composition figure on a stepped plinth painted to simulate bronze -- 11½in. (29.2cm.) high -- made for the 1971 Warner Bros. film A Clockwork Orange; accompanied by a book The International Encyclopedia Of Film, London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1972, the flyleaf signed and inscribed in blue felt pen December, 1972, Dear Len, Merry Christmas, Stanley [Kubrick] (2)
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This bust appears to have been made for the sequence in A Clockwork Orange when the Droogs break in to the house of Catlady [Miriam Karlin]. Catlady subsequently picks up a bust from the desk and uses it in her attempts to defend herself against Alex [Malcolm McDowell], shortly before he kills her.

The vendor worked for Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange. On one occasion he noticed this bust on Kubrick's desk and mentioned to the director that Beethoven was his favourite composer. Kubrick apparently responded by giving this bust to the vendor as a memento.

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