Background
Bache was born in 1896. She was the daughter of investment banker Jules S. Bache and was known to her friends as Kitty.
Bache was born in 1896. She was the daughter of investment banker Jules S. Bache and was known to her friends as Kitty.
lieutenant was staged in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf–Astoria. In 1926, while in Paris at the art gallery of Joseph Duveen, she fell in love with the painting by Francisco Goya, Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga, commonly known as the "Red Boy". Her father then purchased it for $275,000.
The painting was hung prominently in her living room.
Her interior decorator, Billy Baldwin, described her attachment to it as if it were a living being. Her father bequeathed the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it was allowed to be shown periodically in Miller"s apartment until she died in 1979.
She was known for having lavish New Year"s Eve parties that supported charities. In particular, she supported Roosevelt Hospital with millions of dollars.
On 17 April 1980 her estate was sold at auction by Christie"son
In 1983 the Italian Baroque painting of Street John the Baptist Preaching by Mattia Preti was purchased partially with funds from the Kathryn Bache Miller Fund for the Legion of Honor museum in California. In 1988, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University was named in her honor.
A well-dressed society figure, she became a permanent member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, class of 1965, along with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.