 The original 1978 proposal for a seven-foot statue of Tucker, depicted in the role of Des Grieux in the opera "Manon Lescaut" by Giacomo Puccini, had been opposed by a member of Manhattan Community Board 7, who felt that the piece should have been placed in the Metropolitan Opera Hall of Fame, and not on public property.In Zurich, Switzerland, Hebald was commissioned to do a life sized, full figure portrait of James Joyce, for Joyce's tomb.He also made a bust of British novelist Anthony Burgess, to whom he once also sold a house near Rome.