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Mail art card, double-sided, boldly addressed in black paint to ‘JONES’ at 11508 Rochester (in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles), postmarked ‘San Francisco, April 8, 1958’.
Magazine photo affixed to one side of grey card, captioned “Six little Pinks sitting in a row” (possibly from the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings). Initialled “W.B.” in the upper right corner. Berman has painted his return address to the verso (“2315 JACKSON S.F.”), and the words “GWINE”, “MASSUH”, “AH GONNA”, “YASSUH”, and “AHM”, adding a brief message to the lower right corner: “WHATS CONLEYS ADDRESS MY BOOKS NOT UP HERE YET. WILL THEN MAIL YOURS - ”.
Single pinhole to top edge; some superficial creasing, o/w Very Good plus.
An early and unusually large example of Berman’s mail art.
Price:
£1,500.00
