Franco Assetto

The work of art named "Angel of Rescue" is an 18-foot sculpture of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish hero of the Holocaust.

It depicts a bronze silhouette of Wallenberg flanked by two polished stainless steel "wings."

For some 20 years he had been married to the prominent U.S. West Coast music patron Betty Freeman, the subject of David Hockney's painting Beverly Hills Housewife.

According to critic Alan Rich the salons became "the Los Angeles Sunday afternoon hot ticket", featuring such big names such as Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, John Cage and Pierre Boulez, as well as younger artists just beginning their careers.

[4] In 1978 composer Lou Harrison once wrote a tribute for the two called "Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto".