Lot 246: JOHN LATHAM 1921-2006

SKOOB CONSTRUCTION WITH ARNOLD'S LIFE CORRESPONDENCE, VOL.2 AND BROKEN CUP

length 28cm., 11in.; height 14.5cm., 5¾in.

signed and inscribed 5th EDITION on the underside

mixed media construction

NOTE

Born in Africa, Latham studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1946 - 50. He later taught at St Martin's where he was famously dismissed for chewing pages from the library's copy of Greenberg's Art and Culture, spitting them into a bowl and then fermenting the pages in acid and distilling them into a phial. The phial and contents were later acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.