![]() ![]() Bidding opens on October 19 and runs until October 25, while the sheets are on public view in Sotheby’s London galleries from October 21. ![]() This will be the first chance to buy original Persepolis book art at auction. The 44 individual sheets which cover the author’s coming of age during Iran’s Islamic Revolution will form a dedicated auction within Sotheby’s series of Middle East sales in London. It focuses on Iran’s history and current situation, as well as issues of femininity. ![]() Persepolis (2000) was written and drawn by the French-Iranian artist Satrapi and has since been turned into an Oscar-nominated animated film. More than 40 individual sheets from volume 1 of Persepolis, the international bestseller written and drawn by Marjane Satrapi, will go on sale at Sotheby’s. ![]()
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