Sotheby's to auction The Casablanca Piano from La Belle Aurore

The Casablanca Piano from La Belle Aurore > Casablanca was released with great patriotic fanfare in November of 1942, coinciding with the Allied invasion of Morocco. It is a movie of its time replete with careful war propaganda and characteristic banter and yet timeless. Over the past seventy years it has become one of the most beloved movies ever made and the song so deeply entwined with it, As Times Goes By, has reached a similar immortality. On 14 December 2012, Sothebys will auction off this iconic Casablanca piano from La Belle Aurore. The piece will be on exhibition in New York Saturday 8 December through Thursday 13 December,