Lloyd Webber’s decorated musical Sunset Boulevard premiered in 1993 and has since become one of Lloyd Webber’s most celebrated works, having won seven Tony Awards and seven Olivier Awards.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has donated a rare handwritten musical score from his acclaimed musical Sunset Boulevard to help raise money for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
More than 40 artworks in total have been donated for sale by leading artists including Australian sculptor Jake Clark, British mixed-media artist and rug maker Teddy Hansen, Greek painter Stella Kapezanou, Vienna-based painter Kottie Paloma and London-based visual artist Adam Dix, with participating galleries including Clearing Gallery, Obsolete Inc and Fernberger.
Gilbert and George, the award-winning London art duo, and Jonathan Yeo, whose portrait of King Charles reinvented royal portraiture with a butterfly and a dramatic red background, have also contributed art to the sale that opened its online bidding last week and will close on 6 March.
The manuscript is a unique memento of the musical he composed based on the Oscar-winning 1950s film, directed by Billy Wilder, that follows Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a faded star of the silent screen era living in her decaying mansion in Los Angeles.
