Robert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in Desolation Angels, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.
1955, printed later
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: 15.6 x 23.9 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2009.103.9
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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, 2009.
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. 58.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Robert La Vigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in Desolation Angels, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on South Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.; on verso, by unknown hand, in lower left corner in graphite: 41 [inscribed in a circle]; across lower left: x; lower center stamped in ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: YEAR__ LOCATION__ IMAGE #__ SLEEVE #__ PRINTED BY__ NOTE__; in graphite: GD-AG-230; across lower right corner in graphite: #32 / 478 1955 BK5#21 [lightly crossed out] Neg # 21 GDC-497; across upper left center: 67 [inscribed in a circle]
Wikidata ID
Q64073292