Some beautiful books will be coming up to auction soon.
From the article in Art Daily...
The ensemble majors on three iconic poets – Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé – and also features a number of their literary contemporaries, including Tristan Corbière, Alfred Jarry, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Oscar Wilde.
This library, assembled over a forty-year period, comprises works chosen with the utmost care, from books with original bindings and handwritten dedications to manuscripts, vintage photographs and drawings.
This extremely coherent ensemble tellingly portrays an era. The catalogue reads like a parallel history of late 19th century French literature; the links between writers are highlighted by an interplay of inscriptions, correspondence and provenance, including books once owned by Huÿsmans, Jules Renard, Mallarmé and Oscar Wilde.
The collection also takes us to the heart of the legendary scandals involving Rimbaud & Verlaine and Oscar Wilde & Alfred Douglas.
After his stormy meeting with Rimbaud in Stuttgart in 1875, Verlaine wrote to his friend Ernest Delahaye, evoking the rupture and regretting his "culpable folly of not so long ago, of wanting to live only through him" – before predicting that the man with whom he had been passionately in love would be "a nasty vulgar bourgeois by the age of 30…" This celebrated letter is offered with an estimate of €60,000-80,000.
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