ALEXANDER KING The inhabitants who cried to the heavens pray

Sale 2403 - Lot 86

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ALEXANDER KING.
"The inhabitants who cried to the heavens prayed to Epilepsy__." Ink on paper. 300x210 mm; 12x8 1/2 inches, sight. Captioned below in the artist's hand with last two letters affected. Matted, with production notes on verso. 1931.

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Illustration for Charles Fort's apocalyptic book Lo! (New York: Claude Kendall, 1931). King executed an improbable last act in his career that had him as a frequent guest on the Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, with King regaling audiences with tales of his sordid past and various misadventures as an artist, writer, drug-addict and womanizer.