Archives d'un visionnaire, Abel Gance
Subtitle: Collection Nelly Kaplan : vente à Paris, Drouot Richelieu, le mercredi 3 mars 1993
By: maîtres Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur, commissaires-priseurs asscociés ; experts Thierry Bodin, Dominique Lacournet
Contributors: Gance, Abel; Kaplan, Nelly
Publisher: Laurin, Guilloux, Buffetaud, Tailleur
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Bibliography; Catalogs; Motion picture producers and directors; Library; French Manuscripts; Photographs
Notes: Title from p. [1], [3].

Auction catalog of the personal papers bequeathed to Nelly Kaplan by the French film director Abel Gance; 298 lots, including manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, and ca. 1800 photographs.

Includes introduction in French and English by Nelly Kaplan; extract by Gance from Kaplan's film Abel Gance, hier et demain; and English translations of descriptions of lot 26, Robert Delaunay, Project for the "The organs of light", lots 28-46, notebooks 1914-28, lot 131, ms. of La Roue, and lots 155-6, ms. and ts. of Napoléon.