Peter Orlovsky at James Joyce’s grave, Zurich Switzerland December 1980, we climbed up to the cemetery and found Joyce’s statue snow covered, brushed it off his head.

1980

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 × 28.5 cm (7 7/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.137.33

  • Copyright

    Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

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, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; by artist's hand, inscription below image: Peter Orlovsky at James Joyce’s grave, Zurich Switzerland December 1980, we climbed up to the cemetery and found Joyce’s statue snow covered, brushed it off his head.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: #65 VE / T56; upper right corner, circled: #91; center: page 78; center right: [54?]; lower center: GD-AG-372; lower right: 1980 Sleeve 128 / Image 4,551; lower right edge: GDC-662; lower right corner: 56

Wikidata ID

Q64073381

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