Beach, Mary

Original Collage Artwork by Mary Beach (Untitled)

Cherry Valley, NY: Mary Beach, 2001. Original Artwork. Single Sheet. Signed by Mary Beach. Offered here is an original, untitled 2001 collage artwork (appx. 11 x 14”) by Mary Beach (1919-2006), who along with her husband Claude Pelieu (1934-2002) was at the Paris-based center of cutting-edge cut-up writing & collage art. She was also the mother of Pamela Beach Plymell & therefore the mother-in-law of Legendary Literary Outlaw Extraordinaire Charles Plymell. The Beach-Pelieus intersected & collaborated with the Plymells, William S. Burroughs (who was of course her cut-up mentor & inspiration) & many others. The superior provenance of all Third Mind Books’ Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu, and Charles Plymell offerings makes clear that we are THE source for collectibles relating to the nonconformist trinity of Bastard Angels noted above. It doesn’t get any closer to The Source than this! This particular collage works to weave fragments from oversized glossies (picture something like Andy Warhol’s “Interview” magazine, for example) with similar fragments from most any department store or American mailbox of the time. When dealing with Beach, however, a surrealistic flourish or juxtaposition seems always in reach. In the collage offered here, the fragments themselves establish a sort of contextual friction, or dialogue. Fragments, by necessity, clash; discordant crescendos of incoherence and ugliness are all that’s left. Original collage artwork on single sheet. On verso, near bottommost fine-edge at center-middle, is an authorship sticker, no doubt applied by Mary, herself. The tiny sticker, as such, reads:"MB." At lower right-hand corner, Beach has hand-signed her name in pencil: signature reads, “Mary Beach ’01.” Collage in very fine condition, virtually essentially as new with only faintest flecks of shelf-wear to fine-edges. Very Fine. [Item #5165]

Price: $50.00