Collection including a signed Robert Frank photo; two original sculptures, hand-written letters. . . .
1. Robert Frank. Photograph of Tom Waits by Robert Frank, signed by Tom Waits. Ca. 1987. Single weight, 8 x 10-1/2 inches. From the publicity shoot for Waits's album "Rain Dogs". Fine condition.
2. Original sculpture, papier-maché, wood, paint. Approximately 8-1/2 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches. Ca. 1991.
3. Original sculpture. Cement . Approximately 10 inches by 5 inches by 4 inches. Ca. 1991. This appears to us like it could be a self-portrait.
4. ALS “Tom / Kathleen”. Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 1987. Sending photo. He is on the way “out to see Earl King,” the New Orleans blues musician, composer of "Come On" and "Trick Bag".
5. ALS “Tom and Kathleen”. In red and blue ballpoint on yellow lined paper. “AND I get my Olds 88 tomorrow!!”. Ca. 1991
6. Autograph manuscript, black and blue ink on yellow lined paper. List of credits for the “Night on Earth” score. Includes among the band credits Waits’s invented persona, drummer “Mule Patterson”. Ca. 1991
7.Autograph birthday greeting card, with message to author Frank Lauria, and small drawings. On a postcard of Marc Chagall’s ”The Rider”. Ca. 1991
8. ALS “Tom & Kathleen” on a postcard to Ellen Smith and Frank Lauria, Dec. 10, 1991 (postmark). After Waits’s birthday party; thanks for gifts, observations on guests’ behavior.”Last B/Day with an audience, all the rest will be with a beautician and my doctor…”
9. Poster for “Big Time” 1988 One sheet (27 in. x 41 in.). Near fine, rolled.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of Frank Lauria and Ellen Smith. Ellen Smith was a long-time staffer at Island Records, press agent for Marianne Faithfull; she is credited as Producer’s Assistant on Waits's “Frank’s Wild Years” (1987) and Associate Producer and Tour Coordinator on “Big Time” (1988). Item #32024
Price: $10,000.00