Part of the Aristophil Collection will soon go under the hammer at a new series of sales where Boris Vian will be rubbing shoulders with Georges Bizet, Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Corday and Saint-Exupéry.
Boris Vian (1920-1959), Le Goûter des généraux, autograph and typewritten manuscripts [1951].
Estimate: €10,000/15,000 – Auction No. 33
This time the spotlight is on artists. Great writers and composers will shine at the seventh Aristophil auction, split up into eight sessions that, due to the four-week lockdown, will take place behind closed doors from November 17 to 24. Abounding in handwritten and typewritten manuscripts, letters and autograph notes, sometimes illustrated by precious sketches, the collection offers an impressive survey of French literature. The modern period is particularly well represented, evoking extraordinary and, for some, marginal figures. That is the theme chosen for the first sale, orchestrated by the Aguttes OVA auction house on Tuesday, November 17.
Outsiders, From Rimbaud to Vian Boris Vian, author of L’Écume des Jours ( Froth on the Daydream ) and L'Automne à Pékin ( Autumn in Peking ), would have turned 100 this year—a perfect occasion to offer unique documents shedding light on the life and work of this iconoclastic novelist, engineer, translator, trumpeter and glittering figure of post-war bohemian Paris. The manuscript of Goûter des Généraux ( The Generals’ Tea Party ), an emblematic 1951 antimilitarist play unpublished until…
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