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Auction archive: Lot number 24

Letter to Lenny Bruce c.1961

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 24

Letter to Lenny Bruce c.1961

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Typed letter, 2 pages on 2 leaves, stapled. Provocative letter referring at various passages to "Campbell's Hallucogenic Mushroom Soup," filming a group-improvised orgy, "Slavery Riders," etc., and noting that Bruce "may be making an impact on comedy parallel to the impact of Charlie Parker on Jazz…” Ink notation in Bruce's hand in upper right of first page, "Incoming cores." and in pencil "(last winter"). The writer of the letter is unidentified beyond the signature "Todd".

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Typed letter, 2 pages on 2 leaves, stapled. Provocative letter referring at various passages to "Campbell's Hallucogenic Mushroom Soup," filming a group-improvised orgy, "Slavery Riders," etc., and noting that Bruce "may be making an impact on comedy parallel to the impact of Charlie Parker on Jazz…” Ink notation in Bruce's hand in upper right of first page, "Incoming cores." and in pencil "(last winter"). The writer of the letter is unidentified beyond the signature "Todd".

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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