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Watercolored embossing on watercolor board ‘Winsor & Newton’ (watermark), in white wooden frame USA, 2013 John Giorno (b. 1936) – US-American poet and performance artist Signed and dated ‘John Giorno ‘13’ in black felt pen on the frame backboard Sheet dimensions: 28.7 x 28.5 cm In white wooden clip-on frame: 43 x 42.5 cm Very good condition Provenance: Private collection, Berlin; Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin Estimate by Auctionata Expert: 3,000 Euro ‘I would crawl through a mile of shit to suck off the last guy who fucked her’ reads the text of this text image designed with embossed block letters and a loosely watercolored base in transparent red. It is a stanza of the poem ‘Scum & Slime’ that the artist published under his record label on the LP ‘A Diamond Hidden In the Mouth of A Corpse’. Condition: The watercolored embossing is in very good condition. The sheet is mounted to a support. The frame is in very good condition, too, with only minor signs of use. The dimensions of the sheet are 28.7 x 28.5 cm. The frame measures 43 x 42.5 cm. John Giorno (b. 1936) After graduating in 1958 John Giorno worked as a stockbroker in New York, where he met Andy Warhol, who decisively influenced him in his artistic development. In the early 1960s Giorno began to work with poetry, performance and tape recorders. In 1965 he founded the record label and artists' network Giorno Poetry Systems, with which he experimented with new technologies in Music and Poetry Performance. Dealing with the spoken, written and object-like word, 1967 originated the first Poem Prints and Poem Paintings, text fragments transformed to objets d'art. John Giorno is one of the key figures of the New York Beat Generation of the 1960s. (fea) Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.