Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, behind him shades of Ian Summerville, Cambridge mathematics student, Bill’s cut-up tech assistant, and Michael Portman, eighteen-year-old Public School aristocrat admirer of Naked Lunch, the two staying in rooms adjacent to Bill’s, both early deceased — here under the wall of Bill’s garden. All took cameras out beneath blue sky, bright sunny day, Villa Muniria, Tangier August 1961.
1961, printed later
Allen Ginsberg
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: 27.8 x 40.6 cm (10 15/16 x 16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 x 50.3 cm (15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2008.131.26
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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.
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
Exhibition History
2010
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 61.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, behind him shades of Ian Summerville, Cambridge mathematics student, Bill's cut-up tech assistant, and Michael Portman, eighteen-year-old Public School aristocrat admirer of Naked Lunch, the two staying in rooms adjacent to Bill's, both early deceased - here under the wall of Bill's garden. All took cameras out beneath blue sky, bright sunny day, Villa Muneria, Tanger August 1961; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-15; lower right: GDC-904