Oct 17, 2013 - Sale 2325

Sale 2325 - Lot 232

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
GINSBERG, ALLEN (1926-19997)
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Oversized silver print, 11 1/8x17 3/8 inches (28.3x44.1 cm.), with Ginsberg's signature, his lengthy handwritten caption, and the date, in ink, on recto. 1953; printed 1984-1997
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The caption reads: "'Now Jack I warned you far back as 1945, if you keep going home to live with your 'Memère' you'll find yourself wound tighter and tigheter in her apron strings till you can't escape, a dry old man...' William Seward Burroughs camping as an André Giddian [?] sophisticate lecturing the earnest Thomas Wolfean All-American youth Jack Kerouac listening soberly dead-pan to 'the most intelligent man in America' for a funny second's charade in my living room one night, 206 East 7th Street, Apt. 16, Manhattan, Fall 1953."