Luis Fernando Romo
Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-23:29
30 years after her death Concha Piquer: the great fortune in diamonds, mansions and fur coats that she left her daughter when she died
The brilli-brilli of show business would not be such if it were not for
the jewels
that its luminaries baptized as they pleased. There are "the skating rink" of
Elizabeth Taylor,
a 29.4 carat solitaire that her third husband gave her.
From her Mike Todd
; the "bib" and "the lighthouse" by
Sara Montiel, an impressive
Brazilian emerald necklace and a ring with two diamonds of more than seven carats each and "the tambourine", the superb diamond pendant by
Doña Concha Piquer.
Sotheby's
has once again been a tidal wave of jewels with the
auction of part of the treasure
of the coplera diva Doña Concha Piquer, who bequeathed all her power to
her only daughter, Concha Márquez
Piquer. This past Wednesday, the Paris branch hit the gavel so that
collectors and fans
of Spanish song can show off a little piece of history. Conchita and Iris, the granddaughters of "the greatest" - with the permission of the Jury - decided
to get rid of 30% of the collection
because they are aware that due to the type of life they lead they do not wear these types of pieces. This is what Iris confessed to Informalia.
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The lowest starting price was
4,000 euros.
At the close of this edition, one of the most expensive jewels was a
solitaire with a
10.71-carat emerald-cut diamond surrounded by smaller baguette-cut diamonds set in platinum that
reached 82,550 euros;
An enamel, sardonyx and diamond travel watch by
Cartier sold for 25,400 euros
and another wristwatch from the French maison in yellow gold, with the crown set with a cabochon sapphire and a leather strap for 7,620 euros.
Among the
most symbolic pieces
was a
seven-strand necklace of cultured pearls
with a diamond clasp and a diamond and sapphire closure with which both singers were immortalized on countless occasions and which was awarded for 11,430 euros. It must be noted that the famous "tambourine", as it could not be less,
still remains in the hands of the heiresses
, safe in the safe of a bank.
The money that Piquer earned on both sides of the Atlantic was invested in jewelry, real estate, and farms.
For personal and professional reasons Conchita
had to stay in Madrid,
but her sister spent a few days in the City of Light to supervise the entire sale process. Unlike other notable figures of the national show such as
Marujita Díaz or Montiel herself
, who after her death the Madrid jewelry store Molina Cuevas sold or auctioned part of her belongings, the Piquer heirs
have climbed the ranks.
The auction house's website presents Doña Concha as the
symbol of "freedom and female emancipation
of the 1920s, with a heart divided between love, passion and pain. Her voice was capable of expressing
a whole range of emotions,
reflecting her own experiences and those of the women of her time.
The money that Piquer earned
on both sides of the Atlantic was invested in
jewelry, real estate, and farms.
Not bad for a woman who during her childhood
stole potatoes and onions
in Benicalap to feed her mother and her sisters after the death of her father due to cirrhosis. The miracle of her voice took her
to New York at the age of 13
because Maestro Penella wanted her to act in the operetta
The Wildcat
at the Park Theater that magnate William Randolph Hearst had bought to show her lover's films. ,
Marion Davies.
The first
He stayed
in the city of skyscrapers for five years.
The
Schubert
brothers , owners of about fifty theaters, hired her to the delight of
Broadway
. At that time
she did not speak Spanish or English
. She sang
in Valencian.
In dire moments she took refuge in reading her compatriot
De ella Blasco Ibáñez
to ward off her loneliness. Insightful and a prodigy, she learned to speak and write in Spanish and English on her own. That
suffering of being so far
from her homeland was mitigated by acting with the greatest of the time such as
Fred Astaire, Cole Porter or Al Johnson.
One of the milestones in Doña Concha's artistic career that has rarely been taken into account is that she was
the first actress in the world
to star in a sound film,
From far Seville
(1923). During the 11 minutes of footage, the 17-year-old
demonstrated her skill
by singing an Aragonese jota, an Andalusian copla and a Portuguese fado whose sound and image were synchronized with the Phonofilm system. Curiously, it would be Al Johnson who would reach posterity for
The Jazz Singer
(1927), which has always been considered
the first sound film.