Yevgeny Yevtushenko visiting late at night, we stayed up till 3 A.M. talking about which Russian writers works had been suppressed till that year’s recent Glasnost movement, April 1986.

1986

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.9 x 18.6 cm (7 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 x 20.2 cm (10 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.26

  • 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. 82.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Evgeny Yevtushenko visiting, late at night, we stayed up till 3 am talking about which Russian writers had been repressed till that year's recent Glasnost movement, April 1986; on verso, by unknown hand, across bottom in graphite: GD-AG-160; lower right: GDC 507; across upper center: #569/ 18,659 Twelvetreest correct February 18; across upper right: April 86 - May 7 [possibly 9] /86 # 9 BK8 #33 [lightly crossed out]

Wikidata ID

Q64073345

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