Mario Montez & Irving Rosenthal by Jack Smith circa 1962, inscribed by Jack on verso: to Ira and Rosiland with Love. Recently sold with Irving wrongly identified as Piero Heliczer (not that being mistaken for Piero is dishonorable; they were all friends, Mario, Ira, Rosalind, Jack, Irving & Piero.) I had been looking for a good scan of this particular photograph for the last five years or more, only to find it yesterday but misidentified. Anyone who knew what the two poets, Piero & Irving, actually looked like would never mistake one for the other, but that is how such things are handled in the art market,: ignorantly but without conscious ill intent.
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