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Auction archive: Lot number 32

[Neal Cassady] | “Cowboy Neal” flexing

Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$3,024
Auction archive: Lot number 32

[Neal Cassady] | “Cowboy Neal” flexing

Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$3,024
Beschreibung:

Property of Strider Shurtliff [Neal Cassady]“Flexing Muscle” photographic portrait Photographic print (7 x 10’’) of Cassady, matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas. Backstage pass taped to Plexiglas, with “Steal Your Face” and New Riders of the Purple Sage logos. Neal Cassady was famous as a muse for the Beat generation, being the inspiration for several of Jack Kerouac's books, most notably On the Road and Visions of Cody, many of Allen Ginsberg's poems, William Burroughs’ And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, among others. But Cassady was also a prominent figure in the Bay Area’ psychedelic scene—Tom Wolfe brought him vividly to life in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and, for a time, he lived with the Dead. In addition to his literary appearances, he was immortalized in the Dead’s “That’s It For the Other One” as “Cowboy Neal.”

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
7 Oct 2021 - 14 Oct 2021
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Property of Strider Shurtliff [Neal Cassady]“Flexing Muscle” photographic portrait Photographic print (7 x 10’’) of Cassady, matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas. Backstage pass taped to Plexiglas, with “Steal Your Face” and New Riders of the Purple Sage logos. Neal Cassady was famous as a muse for the Beat generation, being the inspiration for several of Jack Kerouac's books, most notably On the Road and Visions of Cody, many of Allen Ginsberg's poems, William Burroughs’ And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, among others. But Cassady was also a prominent figure in the Bay Area’ psychedelic scene—Tom Wolfe brought him vividly to life in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and, for a time, he lived with the Dead. In addition to his literary appearances, he was immortalized in the Dead’s “That’s It For the Other One” as “Cowboy Neal.”

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
7 Oct 2021 - 14 Oct 2021
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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