Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
MENDIETA, ANA. Group of 5 Autograph Notes, including 3 Signed, "Ana," on postcards, to Donna Thurman, in red or green or purple or black ink, mostly giving travel plans, inviting to an exhibition, mentioning mutual friends, etc. Together 5 pages, each 12mo; some smudging to first (but still legible), minor scattered soiling, postmarks touching text. Vp, 1975-1980s [from postmarks]
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15 December 1975: "[Quoting Octavio Paz:] 'Our cult of death is also a cult of life, in the same way that love is a hunger for life and a longing for death. Our fondness for self-destruction derives not only from our masochistic tendencies but also from a certain variety of religious emotion.'"
29 [April?] 1976: ". . . We have done performances in Germany, Belgium & England so far. Tomorrow we leave for Yugoslavia. I like Europe but I think the U.S. is were [sic] its at. By the way this site was fantastic. We took a bus to see it." [On verso is a photograph of Stonehenge.]
30 September [1983?]: ". . . Rocky is leaving this week. Hope everything goes well for the festival. How do you like yourself? I'll write more soon."
With--Small group of mostly printed ephemera including newspaper articles relating to Mendieta's death, Mendieta exhibition invitations, or correspondence from art gallery representatives to Thurman. Vp, 1980s.