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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Montale, Eugenio , Berenson, Bernard, Elsa Morante

Correspondence, 1950

Estimate

€ 4.000 - 6.000

Sold

€ 5.100

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Fabrizio Clerici's vast personal archive, including 61 modern folders dedicated to as many correspondents.


Specialist Notes

The list is impressive, a true complete sample of the Italian (and partly foreign) intelligentsia of the 1950s-1960s. Friends and occasional correspondents, letters never taken for granted by: Elsa Morante (14 postcards from Morante and Moravia); Ennio Flaiano; Bernard Berenson (letters, photos and postcards); Eugenio Montale (splendid letter with drawing, and inscribed bookmark); Libero De Libero (very large correspondence, over 70 units); Guido Ceronetti; Vanni Scheiwiller, Alberto Mondadori; Siné (Maurice Sinet, with letters and a beautiful caricature album); Liliana Cavani; Eduardo De Filippo; Romolo Valli; Cesare Zavattini; Leonardo Sinisgalli; Mario Praz; Julien Green; Sherban Sidery; Marcel Brion; Edgar Wind; Giuseppe Viviani; Raffele Mattioli; G.C. Argan; M. Yourcenar; Federico Zeri; Enrico Falqui; Luigi Squarzina; Piero Guccione; Marcello Carapezza; Swarz; Renato Guttuso; Alberto Lattuada; Patrick Waldberg; Peter Ustinov; Alvar Gonzales Palacios; Gesualdo Bufalino; Vincenzo Consolo; Colette Rosselli etc. etc.