“Go to Hell With Your Money” 

I’m not ideologically inclined to like Asger Jorn’s school of art. But I have a number of pieces by him in a collection of COBRA art that I inherited through my first failed attempt at the art business. And so I was delighted to read a telegram he wrote to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1964, rejecting the $2,500 award they had given him for his work.

1. 1. GUGGENHEIM. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION N.Y.

GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD. REFUSE PRICE. NEVER ASKED FOR IT. AGAINST ALL DECENSY MIX ARTIST AGAINST HIS WILL IN YOUR PUBLICITY. I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION NOT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YOUR RIDICULOUS GAME. JORN

(Source: Letters of Note)