2023-12-06 18:29:33
From left to right: Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Elzéar Bonnier. Hervé Lewandowski / RMN-GP/ (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) / Hervé Lewandowsk
STORY – Never out of a private collection, the flagship poem of “a season in hell”, praised by the American singer Patti Smith, is for sale on December 8 at Piasa in Paris.
It’s the 150th anniversary ofA season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, one of the most beloved figures in French literature, who died at the age of 37 from bone cancer. Eternity, one of the seven poems that he had printed in the central part of this prose collection published on his own in 1873, is for sale on December 8, at Piasa, in Paris. Estimated at 200,000 to 300,000 euros, this world-famous and acclaimed poem by the American Patti Smith – a page measuring 21 by 15 centimeters written in brown ink and dated May 1872 – is an event, being released on the market.
“Since its first publication by Rimbaud, the manuscript has only resurfaced once. It was seen and printed in 1919 and, in over a century, this is the first time it has reappearedexplains bookseller Jean-Baptiste de Proyart, expert on this sale. In 1919, the original was still in the hands of the poet Jean Richepin, to whom Arthur Rimbaud had given it. When he died, he remained in the secret of…
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