196 - Beat Lyrics - Two original drawings, one featuring a collage.

Beat Lyrics - Two original drawings, one featuring a collage. Call time: approx. 1:53 p.m. (schedule subject to change) I. Antony Balch. Untitled (letter drawing). Colored pencils and ink. 26.5 × 20.5 cm. Initialed “Anth.”—On Balch’s stationery, with the letterhead on the reverse. A gift from the artist to Ralf-Rainer Rygulla; on the reverse is Rygulla’s handwritten account of a “get-together” with the artist. Antony Balch (1937–1980) was an English film director who belonged to the circle of friends of W. S. Burroughs, Brian Gysin, and others. - II. D. A. Levy. Poem for Mara V. Ink on a Braille sheet, with collage. 1968. 28 × 21.5 cm. Signed and titled by typewriter. The American underground poet and artist (1942–1968) had submitted this sheet in hopes of being included in the ACID anthology by Rygulla and Brinkmann, but was not accepted (see Rygulla’s note on the reverse). - Formerly in the collection of Ralf-Dieter Rygulla; since 1999, a gift to a private collection in Hesse.