Sandro Chia, his apartment-studio on West 20's in New York, Julian Schnabel's crockery portrait of him hung on wall, his shotgun on display - he'd been out target-practicing with W. S. Burroughs at Chia's house in Rhinebeck a weel before, had begun working with a text by Gregory Corso that season, April 1985.
1985
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 34.5 x 34.4 cm (13 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
sheet: 50.2 x 4.5 cm (19 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2008.131.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Sandro Chia, his apartment-studio on West 20's in New York, Julian Schnabel's crockery portrait of him hung on wall, his shotgun on display - he'd been out target-practicing with W. S. Burroughs at Chia's house in Rhinebeck a weel before, had begun working with a text by Gregory Corso that season, April 1985.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-78; lower right corner: GDC-877