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D.A. LEVY (1942-1968)
Child with a Red Balloon and Telogy #1. Two mixed media acrylic on board with cutouts, watercolor and ink on vellum, 1963. Each 278x216 mm; 11x8½ inches. Each signed and dated in ink, lower center. Each signed and titled, verso.
Provenance Private collection, New York.
Levy was a Cleveland-based artist, poet and publisher and a prominent underground figure in the city. With his published works, he tended to focus on the sexual and narcotic habits of the demimonde of Cleveland, a focus which found him the center of an obscenity trial in 1966. The wide attention gained by the trial sparked a benefit reading at the Case Institute of Technology, attended by Allan Ginsberg, The Fugs and Tuli Kupferberg (see photo lot 148). The charges were ultimately dropped two years later.
