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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GOREY, EDWARD. AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS SIGNED "Ted" to Donald Weeks, Gorey's friend and collaborator. The first, reproducing a photograph of three early 20th century men involved in some sort of outdoor project, one wearing a smock, of whom Gorey, writing from Barnstable, asks "Do you think this can be Calvin Coolidge?" He talks about "rusticating on the Cape" with the one drawback being "film-starvation . . . somehow Youngblood Hawke and Kitten with a Whip are NOT ENOUGH. Fortunately, the Beatles are coming back next week." * Second postcard of a Homer Martin painting, wishes Weeks a happy new year and complains about his disenchantment with New York in winter "Well, here I am in what has all the charm of the Black Hole of Calcutta and fraught with various pshychosomatic disorders. Even the movies seem uniformly dreadful." Each oblong 16mo. Barnstable, 9 December 1964 (from postmark); New York, January 1965 (from postmark)
Weeks was Art Director of Chevrolet's house magazine "Friends" in Detroit, when he hired Gorey as an artist in 1964. The two remained friends and sometime collaborators. Gorey also dedicated a few of his works to Weeks. A postmarked envelope addressed to him there, by Gorey, is included with the lot, though lacking its contents. Gorey signed his correspondence to family and friends affectionately as "Ted."
