- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: NIJINSKY'S DIARY FETCHES 45,000 POUNDS AT SOTHEBY'S AUCTION
- Date: 24th July 1979
- Summary: 1. GV of interior of Sotheby's in London 0.13 2. SV of person showing dairy to prospective buyers, and bidding (3 shots) 0.46 3. CU diary 0.48 4. SV of John Darby interviewing auctioneer with Roy Davids in English. 1.05 5. CU of diary (two shots) 1.20 6. SCU Mr Davids speaking 1.36 7. CU of Sotheby's sign outside building PA
- Embargoed: 8th August 1979 13:00
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- Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVA1U75XD78VC1H5ERV0XTVVKAHV
- Story Text: A diary written by the legendary Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky containing thirty thousand words of unpublished material has fetched forty-five thousand pounds (about 100 thousand dollars) at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, (24 July). The manuscript, which fills three exercise books, was bought by an Oxford dealer, Colin Franklin. Nijinsky wrote the diary at St. Mortiz in the winter of 1918-1919. It contains erotic passages about Nijinsky's stormy relationship with Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and recounts his love for his Hungarian-born wife Romola and daughter Kyra. Two-thirds of Nijinsky's diaries have already been published but this manuscript is different because it reflects the tortured state of Nijinsky's mind as i.e. became aware of the onset of his schizophrenia. Nijinsky's widow, who died last year, had suppressed publication of the diary to protect her husband's reputation. Mr Roy Davids conducted the auction for Sotheby's.
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