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Serge Gainsbourg (French, 1928–1991)
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Serge Gainsbourg (French, 1928–1991)
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Serge Gainsbourg (French, 1928–1991)
for Vanessa Paradis (French, born in 1972)
‘Variation sur le même t’aime’, 1990
Original demo for the LP on Sony cassette.
The 10 songs composed by Gainsbourg, recorded by Vanessa Paradis and orchestrated by Franck Langolff (French, 1948–2006), submitted by Studio Guillaume Tell, were personally approved by Gainsbourg: “ready to record!”.
Includes four black-and-white photographic prints by Andrew Birkin (British, born 1945) depicting: “Gainsbourg on the beach”, “Gainsbourg and his bull terrier Nana”, “Charlotte at the table” and “Charlotte with a lace-up shoe”. Dimensions approx. 18.5 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: given by Gainsbourg to his biographer Franck Maubert.
“Paradise is hell!” declared Serge Gainsbourg after writing the lyrics for the 10 songs on this album in five days – an album that Vanessa Paradis had initially planned to record with Roda-Gil, Renaud, Souchon and Buzy. A double gold disc, “Variation sur le même t’aime” sold over 400,000 copies.
See original version (French)
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