![]() Depicting the artist with his characteristic dark beard and pipe, dressed like a vagabond in tattered clothing and drooping top hat, the work is inscribed with “I Don’t Like Private Capitalism, I Don’t Like State Capitalism-I Do Like My Own Capitalism”.Ī self-taught artist, and during his lifetime a legendary bohemian, Bilbo was known for his larger-than-life persona, which he actively cultivated through autobiographical texts that included, for example, accounts of being Al Capone’s bodyguard in the 1930s. Spanning four decades of artistic production, the exhibition will focus on Bilbo’s ink drawings from the 1940s, highlighting his unique pairing of imagery with text that is exemplified by I Don’t Like Private Capitalism…. A new exhibition of works by Jack Bilbo (1907–1967) is to be mounted at London’s David Zwirner Gallery, organised in collaboration with The Estate of Jack Bilbo and England & Co. ![]()
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