A touch of the erotic: Collection of ‘Lolita’ publisher includes nudes by Schiele and Giacometti

Works collected by the late Lord Weidenfeld, founder of the publishing firm that first brought out ‘Lolita’ in English, go under the hammer at Christie’s in May. The single-owner sale includes drawings of the female form by Egon Schiele and Alberto Giacometti.

The release of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial text in 1959 stirred up controversy and George Weide…

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