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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

Property from the Estate of Property from the Estate of Eleanor P. Brenner Property from the Estate of Eleanor P. Brenner
~1109 ~1110
Eleanor P. Brenner A HUANGHUALI KANG TABLE A HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR CORNER-LEG
TABLE
17TH CENTURY
11¿ in. (28.3 cm.) high, 30¡ in. (77.2 cm.) wide, 19 in. (49.3 cm.) deep 18TH-19TH CENTURY
埃莉ピg1g布і納珍藏 $25,000-35,000 30q in. (87.6 cm.) high, 39 in. (99 cm.) wide, 29 in. (73.7 cm.) deep
$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
Cola Ma, Hong Kong, 1989. PROVENANCE:
(Lots 1109–1113) Eleanor P. Brenner Collection, New Mexico. Eleanor P. Brenner Collection, New Mexico, acquired before 2013.
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Eleanor P. Brenner was born on March 12, 1934 in New York City, where she spent most of Ϝ源 Ϝ源
her life until moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late 1990s. She graduated from New 馬可樂, 香港, 1989年 埃莉ピgPg布і納珍藏, 新ખ西哥州, 2013年͠עՆ藏
York University and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She was the personification of a New 埃莉ピgPg布і納珍藏, 新ખ西哥州
Yorker of her generation—stylish, sophisticated, elegant, and without a doubt, glamorous. The form of the present table, with its simple, elegant lines, is one of
Eleanor met her husband Richard Arthur Brenner when they both worked at Bloomingdale’s. the most successful, and popular forms found in Chinese furniture
The couple welcomed two children, Tony and Patty, soon after they were married, and were construction, dating the Ming and the Qing dynasties. A related
deeply in love for 56 years until Dick’s passing in 2013. Eleanor was a force of nature with rectangular corner-leg table with cusped, beaded aprons and carved
many talents and abilities; indeed, her life and career were defined by her creativity and her with conjoined floral scroll was sold at Christie's New York, 13
vision. After leaving Bloomingdale’s, she became a nationally acclaimed interior decorator, September 2019, lot 950.
fashion designer, cookbook author, and philanthropist. Among the many philanthropic
activities in which she was engaged, one was particularly dear to Eleanor. In 2003, she and
Dick created First Serve – New Mexico, a non-profit charitable corporation affiliated with
the United States Tennis Federation. Combining academic tutoring with life coaching and
professional tennis instruction, First Serve endeavors to encourage students to recognize
their own opportunity for success through determination and diligence. Eleanor was a
beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend who passed away on April 2, 2023. Christie’s
Eleanor P. Brenner. © International Center of Photography and is honored to offer five pieces of Chinese furniture from her collection, the quality of which
Scavullo Trust Beneficiaries. Photographer: Scavullo. attests to her discerning taste.
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