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FRANCIS BACON IN MORROCO GETS INTO THE HABIT VISITING ALLAN GINSBERG AND WILLIAM BURROUGHS, THEY SMOKE HASH BUT IT DOESN;T AGREE WITH HIM AND HE STICKS TO ALCOHOL. 2021. UNIQUE WORK.

paul robertson — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:09:59 +0000

30 x 21cm, colour pastels and crayon on white paper. Unique drawing of a historic scene in 19the late 50s when Bacon was hanging with Ginsberg and Burroughs in Morocco smoking dope but not liking it very much. Title and various texts on reverse where the drawing is signed. A unique work. VG+.

HAPPENING PROGRAMME/INVITATION: ‘HAPPENING – OPEN HOUSE IN PARIS. 1966, HANDWRITTEN INVITE.

paul robertson — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:22:38 +0000

Paris: Serge Velnez, July 19, 1966 Five printed mimeo-sheets together with holograph announcement. Housed in original mailing envelope (hand-written). Scarce documentation of a Lebel co-organized Happening Event, featuring a reading by Allan Ginsberg ('Footnote to Howl'), which is included here in Lebel's French translation (presumably, the first thus) + a detailed step by step chronology of the Happening. Fine estate in slightly creased envelope. A rare document.

WNET TV CHANNEL 13/GLOBAL GROOVE. 1974.

paul robertson — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:15:38 +0000

NYC: WNET TV/Paik, 1974

42 x 32cm, b/w announcement poster for Paik's Fluxus tv broadcast with the participation of many other important contemporaries. Image is a reproduced large b/w collage by Peter Moore. Fine example. Scarce.