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∏He Joseph Conrad Collec∏Ion from the Library of the Late Stanley J LONDON THE JOSEPH CONRAD COLLE C TION ∏he FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE STANLEY J. SEEGE Joseph CoNrad ColleC∏ioN from the library of the late stanley j. seege® Part I R - P ART I 10 10 J ULy 2013 2013 ULy L 13415 LONDON 34–35 nEW BOND STREET LONDON W1a 2Aa | +44 (0)20 7293 5000 | sOTHEBYS.COM 10 JULY 2013 BACK COVER LOT 93 PORTRAIT OF CONRAD WITHIN ONE DAY MORE, 1917 THIS PAGE LOT 37 conrad TYPHOON THE COMPLETE AUtoGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT ∏he Joseph CoNrad ColleC∏ioN from the library of the late stanley j. seege® Part I AUCTION IN LONDON WEDNESDAy 10 july 2013 | 2.30 Pm EXHIBITION AT NEW BOND STREET Friday 5 July | 9 am–4.30 pm Sunday 7 July | 12 noon–5 pm Monday 8 July | 9 am–4.30 pm Tuesday 9 July | 9 am–4.30 pm sothebys.com/bidnow 34-35 NEW BOND STREET LONDON W1A 2AA +44 (0)20 7293 5000 | sOTHEBYS.COM INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENTS SPECIALISTS AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES For a full listing of our offices and salerooms worldwide with detailed information on all of Sotheby’s services, visit sothebys.com For further information on lots in this auction please contact any of the specialists listed below. 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As one of the greatest collectors of his generation, Seeger too, collections of first editions of Hawthorne, Mark Twain, was determined to guard his privacy in the middle of the sea Longfellow, Gertrude Stein and others. Also vying for attention of the art world. Over the last three decades of Seeger’s life, were antiquities, and, to my untutored eye, a disconcerting, Cone observed both the pattern of his life and his collecting, rather angry-looking collection of Pre-Columbian figures on recalling Stanley “as an immensely private person and, while shelves in the master bedroom.” his collecting was both an aesthetic and intellectual pleasure to Stanley had consuming passions, and perhaps the greatest was him, it was something he enjoyed privately.” So successful was for Picasso. “Stanley was by instinct cerebral and reclusive. But Stanley at ensuring his invisibility that a day or so before his understanding Picasso became an obsession for Stanley. He highly successful auction of 88 Picassos at Sotheby’s New York in responded to the sensuality of Picasso and he loved tough but 1992, he and Christopher went to look at an exhibition of Picasso predominantly figurative art”. His acquisition of Picasso’s work Drawings at a gallery and over-heard the owner tell a visitor was like solving a particularly difficult puzzle. He had to finish that he did “not believe that there was such a person as Stanley it, but once he had fully explored it he needed to move on.” Seeger” . Delighted at this tribute they left the gallery unnoticed. Characteristically, this change of direction was transformed into Christopher was introduced to Stanley by the artist John a new pleasure. Over the last 20 years, Christopher and Stanley Craxton, who “thought that I might be able to cheer Stanley up oversaw with great attention to detail, the auction of $100 million a bit, and took me to his Mayfair mews house for dinner. As an of paintings and other works of art, while continuing to collect. impoverished Sotheby’s Belgravia Victorian picture cataloguer, For example, another passion, which was still in progress when Stanley J. Seeger the experience of entering that pretty, and unostentatious he died, was his extraordinary collection of works by Joseph house was something I shall never forget. The front door Conrad, which will be sold at Sotheby’s in London this July. opened and there, standing beside an ancient oak dresser was Christopher recounts the personal connection for Stanley: An exhibition of some of those acquisitions was mounted at his a decorator and every house became a distinctive private space Stanley, exotically, but typically, dressed in a gloriously blue “The collection is another example of his obsessiveness. It alma mater in 1961, after which he worked with the fabled art for the couple and a close circle of friends. African robe with long hair and a beard and the most intensely contains almost every edition of Conrad ever printed, as well as dealer Catherine Viviano, discovering contemporary Italian art After ten years of buying, however, the accumulated blue, rather sad, eyes. Over supper, came to understand presentation copies and letters and the last great manuscript in that he bought throughout his life, and Peter Lanyon, another of collections had in some cases reached completion and in that Stanley was a softly spoken, reticent and gentle being, private hands, Typhoon, which he bought in Sotheby’s New York Viviano’s stable of artists. others needed to be rationalised. This was my introduction to seemingly very shy, intense, and with an impish sense of in 1990. Stanley shared with Conrad a love of the sea, and the Another of Seeger’s passions, as already alluded to, was the phenomenon that was Stanley Seeger: in 1992, I received humour. He asked me at one point, and with no relevance to freedom of it. Stanley was footloose.
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