Art Of The Day Weekly
#365 - from 20 November 2014 to 26 November 2014
Lot n° 81, Restif de la Bretonne, La Découverte australe Par un Homme-volant, ou Le Dédale français Nouvelle très-philosophique: Suivie de la Lettre d'un Singe, &ca. Leipzig, Et se trouve à Paris, s.d. [1781]. Estimate :€ 800-1000.
Carrière's passion
PARIS - Jean-Claude Carrière (born in 1931) was a script writer for some of Buñuel’s unforgettable movies (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie), Schlöndorff’s (The Drum ), Deray (La Piscine); he is a writer and a great traveler. Does his personal library reflect his tastes? Record-breaking auctions are not always as interesting as those that reflect the secret garden of a cultivated person. The 307 lots, all rather accessible (except for a 1888 edition of Illuminations by Rimbaud, estimated at €6000) underscore his widely spanned curiosity. Next to the burlesque lampoons on Mazarin in 1649, this inventive poetry at the time of la Fronde (€600), or a 1792 edition of Libertin de qualité by Mirabeau, are the Tragiques by Agrippa d’Aubigné, the Eserciti spirituali by Ignace de Loyola (in Italian), works by Quevedo (in Spanish) and beautiful editions of Alfred Jarry. A very practical guide on how to build a library with a real personality.
• Bibliothèque Jean-Claude Carrière on 21 November 2014 at hôtel Drouot (SVV Binoche Giquello).