Leonard Cohen’s love letters are at auction. A private collection of more than 50 love letters written by Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer – songwriter, has sold for the ridiculous amount of 876,000 dollars. The documents describe a very important period in the life of the artist.
The letters are from the 1960s love affair between the artist and Marianne Ihlen, the woman who inspired the famous song “So Long, Marianne”.
This song is one of most known by the Canadian singer, If you want to listen the song it’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzAjfwQtvM
Marianne Ihlen was Cohen’s muse and she also became the inspiration for several of his best known songs, including “Bird on a Wire,” “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye”.
Leonard Cohen met the Norwegian – born Ihlen on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960.
However, why we can know now about this letters? Why not before? The decision has a very specific reason.
After the death of both in 2016, Ihlen’s family decided to sell the letter. We don’t know the names of the buyers. So, Leonard Cohen death came before he could publish the letters, or maybe he wouldn’t.
The top letter was written in December 1960 and is about being “Alone with the vast dictionaries of language”. It was sold for 56,250 dollars: that’s a lot compared to an original high estimate of 10,000 dollars.
There is also a letter about the fame of the singer: this letter is from 1964 and Cohen wrote “I am famous but empty”.
In these documents maybe someone could find some very private information about Cohen’s life, but his beautiful songs will be forever available for everyone who wants to listen them.
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