…at 130. Italian Vogue has a tribute to Marchesa Casati, captured by Augustus John, above. Incidentally I’ll be off to London to stalk the ghosts of John, Casati and others in the coming days. Meanwhile, Jack Kerouac’s response to John’s portrait, from “The 74th Chorus”:
Marchesa Casati
Is a living doll
Pinned on my Frisco
Skid row wall
Her eyes are vast
Her skin is shiny
Blue veins
And wild red hair
Shoulders sweet & tiny
Love her
Love her
Sings the sea
Bluely
Moaning
In the Augustus John
de John
background
Strange Flowers 
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