CHARLES BUKOWSKI
2013 fine art print / edition of 20 (SOLD OUT)
Born in Germany between the Great Wars, writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was dragged during adolescence to California by his impoverished parents, who raised him on a regimen of physical and emotional abuse. As a kid he suffered bad acne, causing schoolmates to torment the timid, awkward youngster. The horrible truth that pain is relentless and people mostly worthless set in early and firmly. But two discoveries changed everything: booze and the written word. Bukowski had a genius for both: one went in prodigiously, the other came out abundantly.
Cue several decades of factory jobs and post office drudgery, underscoring failed attempts to make it as an author. Long stretches of hard drinking, short bursts of romantic foment, and rare sparks of creative encouragement marked this period. He stopped writing for a decade (his "ten-year drunk"). By the late 1960s he'd stripped away the vestiges of art damage from his early work and distilled the everyday ass-kickings, arrests and inebriated fucking into a growing body of fearless poems and prose. The miracle is in its lyricism and humor, despite a world of idiocy, meaningless things granted false profundity, and credentialed ciphers exercising absurd sway over the lives of grunts. Read more...
EDITION IS SOLD OUT.
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Orders for multiple prints in any combination will be charged just the single-print flat shipping rate at checkout.
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On October 9, 2017, we sold the final print of the edition. This work is no longer available from DrewFriedman.net.
Only twenty (20) prints of CHARLES BUKOWSKI by Drew Friedman were produced for this edition. Each print is signed in the lower right, hand-titled in the center, and numbered in the lower left (all beneath the image).
The image area is 15" high x 11" wide, centered on an untrimmed 19" x 13" sheet. Paper, ink, and production specifications, as well as shipping details, are available on our PRINT SPECS page.
In the early 1980s, Friedman illustrated a series of new Bukowski stories for High Times magazine. Bukowski loved the illustrations, and sent this letter to HT Editor Larry "Ratso" Sloman. The story to which Bukowski refers in the letter was "There's No Business like Show Business."
Only twenty (20) prints of CHARLES BUKOWSKI by Drew Friedman were produced for this edition. Each print is signed in the lower right, hand-titled in the center, and numbered in the lower left (all beneath the image).
The image area is 15" high x 11" wide, centered on an untrimmed 19" x 13" sheet. Paper, ink, and production specifications, as well as shipping details, are available on our PRINT SPECS page.
In the early 1980s, Friedman illustrated a series of new Bukowski stories for High Times magazine. Bukowski loved the illustrations, and sent this letter to HT Editor Larry "Ratso" Sloman. The story to which Bukowski refers in the letter was "There's No Business like Show Business."
