Stockholm - Fans of the late Swedish director will be able to bid for items from his estate including a Golden Globe award and possibly the famous chess set from The Seventh Seal, the auction house Bukowski said Thursday.
The auction wwill take place on September 28 and is in accordance with Bergman's last wish, stipulating "no emotional hullabaloo," the auction house said.
Bergman died at age 89 in 2007. Many of the 300 items were from his home on Faro, an isle off northern Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
He became first found fame in the 1950s and 1960s with films like The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, and Shame.
Among the lots was a desk where Bergman penned several of his scripts and screenplays and a magic lantern - or Lanterna Magica - a precursor to the modern slide projector.
A chess set, quite worn and missing the white king, was also for sale. The auction house said it was "probably" the same set used in the 1957 movie The Seventh Seal where Max von Sydow portrays a knight who plays chess with Death, played by Bengt Ekerot.
The combined asking prices of the lots were 2 million kronor (277,000 dollars), and included awards, medals and diplomas bestowed on Bergman during his fabled career as director for the screen and stage.
The most expensive lot was a 1896 lithograph by Norwegian artist Evard Munch of Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg, with an asking price of between 50,000 and 65,000 dollars.
The Swedish Film Institute in 2002 set up a foundation to administrate, preserve and provide information about his works after Bergman donated his archives.
The material included hand-written and typed original manuscripts, drafts, notebooks, production papers, photographs and behind-the-scenes footage from the shooting of his films, as well as private and professional correspondence.(dpa)
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