Ingmar Bergman's items to go under the hammer
Personal items belonging to the late Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman will go up for auction in Stockholm on September 28 in line with his final wishes.
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The items, including furniture, artworks, cinema and theatre awards, knick-knacks and crockery, were shown to the press Tuesday at Bukowski's auction house.
A total of 339 objects from Bergman's home on the remote Baltic island of Fårö will go under the hammer, with the proceeds going to his family.
"It's a small auction of a very famous person," senior curator Tom Österman told AFP.
Bergman died on July 30, 2007 at the age of 89 after directing more than 40 films during a career that spanned the second-half of the 20th century.
Bukowski's said it was difficult to put price tags on the objects, whose "value comes partly from their owner."
Many of the objects are simple everyday things of little market value, such as vinyl records or well-worn furniture. But they are expected to draw hordes of Bergman fans.
Cinema fans will meanwhile have the chance to acquire projectors, cameras, or letters from the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science for his Oscar nominations.
Other items will attract art aficionados. Of particular interest is a lithography of Swedish author August Strindberg by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, as well as a portrait of Bergman shot and dedicated by US photographer Irving Penn.
The objects are on display in Stockholm from September 24 to 27.
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