May 11, 2017 - Sale 2447

Sale 2447 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JAMES LEE BYARS
Untitled.

Pencil on hand-painted red paper in the shape of a circle. 318x308 mm; 12 1/2x12 1/8 inches.

A letter 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 postcards, one from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one from the Koninklijke Musea, Brussels, written by Byars to the current owner in ball-point pen and blue and red ink.