May 11, 2017 - Sale 2447

Sale 2447 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAMES LEE BYARS
Untitled.

Two letters contained on approximately 38 sheets of beige paper, in ball-point pen and green and blue ink. Each sheet approximately 50x178 mm; 2x7 inches.

Letters written directly to the current owner, a novelist and former art world habitué who engaged in correspondence with the artist for a time after they met circa 1970.

With two Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, postcards, postmarked 1972, written by Byars to the current owner in ball-point pen and red ink.