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James Joyce Led the Kahn Collection’s Odyssey

Result EUR251,600
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 18 June 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Part three of the sale of Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn’s library lived up to expectations.

James Joyce (1882-1941), Ulysses, 16 quarto pages of corrected galleys of an excerpt... James Joyce Led the Kahn Collection’s Odyssey

James Joyce (1882-1941), Ulysses, 16 quarto pages of corrected galleys of an excerpt from "Telemachus", the novel’s first chapter, Dijon, Darantiere, September 1921.
Result: €251,600

This time, the journey into the Kahns’ world offered a detour in the form of photographs and paintings by László Moholy-Nagy, Jean Arp and Joan Miró. Of course, there were also some new gems in terms…
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A Thousand Nights of Dreams - Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn Collection III
Friday 18 June 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) - Live
Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
Pierre Bergé & Associés
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