Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York, 1984, printed 1992

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)

sheet: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2011.146.30

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic / naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round eachother's waists. / He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, / September 1984, New York Allen Ginsberg; on verso signed by artist, center right in graphite: 5/14/92 AG [2 illegible words]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-358; bottom right: 217/9377 / [circled] 1984 / GDC-824

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.