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Un disegno di John Lennon
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Uno dei disegni della collezione di John Lennon che andranno all'asta per Sotheby's a New York.
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Un manoscritto di John Lennon
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Disegni di John Lennon all'asta per Sotheby's

L’altro Lennon

di Micol De Pas

All’asta disegni, poesie e manoscritti di John Lennon

Un disegno di John Lennon

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 29: A drawing is viewed as part of a collection of letters, poems and drawings from John Lennon to be auctioned at Sotheby’s auction house on May 29, 2014 in New York City. The drawings, poems and prose were created for inclusion in the books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”. According to Sotheby’s, this will be the largest private collection of Lennon’s work to come to ever be auctioned. Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on December 8, 1980. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Uno dei disegni della collezione di John Lennon che andranno all’asta per Sotheby’s a New York.

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 29: A drawing is viewed as part of a collection of letters, poems and drawings from John Lennon to be auctioned at Sotheby’s auction house on May 29, 2014 in New York City. The drawings, poems and prose were created for inclusion in the books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”. According to Sotheby’s, this will be the largest private collection of Lennon’s work to come to ever be auctioned. Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on December 8, 1980. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Un manoscritto di John Lennon

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 29: Some of the letters and poems from John Lennon which are to be auctioned at Sotheby’s auction house are viewed on May 29, 2014 in New York City. The drawings, poems and prose were created for inclusion in the books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”. According to Sotheby’s, this will be the largest private collection of Lennon’s work to come to ever be auctioned. Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on December 8, 1980. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Disegni di John Lennon all’asta per Sotheby’s

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 29: A drawing is viewed as part of a collection of letters, poems and drawings from John Lennon to be auctioned at Sotheby’s auction house on May 29, 2014 in New York City. The drawings, poems and prose were created for inclusion in the books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”. According to Sotheby’s, this will be the largest private collection of Lennon’s work to come to ever be auctioned. Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on December 8, 1980. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Sarà New York a ospitare l’asta della più grande collezione di disegni, manoscritti e poesie di John Lennon. A darne l’annuncio è la casa d’aste Sotheby’s che si occuperà della vendita. Proprio in occasione dei 50 anni dalla prima apparizione dei Beatles negli Stati Uniti: era il 1964 quando parteciparono al ‘Ed Sullivan Show’, davanti a 73 milioni di telespettatori.

E ora andranno all’asta tutte le opere della collezione intitolata ‘You Might Well Ask’ e composta da una novantina di lotti, valutati complessivamente per 800.000 dollari.

Parzialmente già pubblicata tra il 1964 e il 65 da Tom Maschler, vanta comunque scritti e disegni inediti, tutti risalenti alla prima metà degli anni Sessanta, nel pieno dell’esplosione della ‘Beatlemania’. 

All’incanto ci saranno i manoscritti delle poesie di Lennon che Charles Curran, un parlamentare britannico di stampo conservatore, nel 1964  citò come esempio del cattivo stato del sistema educativo inglese.

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