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Postcard from Gerrit [Hilhorst]

Item date(s): May 3 . 1977

Gerrit Hilhorst  - (written by)
Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (recipient)


Pages: Single sheet
Size: 224mm
Language: English


Place publication: New York
Publisher: The author

Additional notes:
Large red decorated postcard using coloured pens addressed to FOOK FERD III.

The front of the postcard is a red screenprint.

From Gerrit * NYC

RAUSCHENBERG (This is Rauschenberg's actual signature)

Dear Walter

[SP]READ[S?] SALES April 29 my birthday

Hope you are high [We're OK]

SONNABEND + CASTELLI 420 W. BROADWAY, NYC

Still showing the same old shit.

Letter follows soon. Luv

Stamped over the text: THIS IS NOT ART.

Castelli/Sonnabend Videotapes and Films (CSVAF) was a division of Leo Castelli Gallery founded in 1974 to facilitate the sale and distribution of moving-image art.

Ref: GB/30194



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