A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961

1961, printed later

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: 30.3 x 20.2 cm (11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.8 x 31.9 cm (16 7/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.146.37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera / in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill / Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tanger 1961. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-115; bottom right: GDC-892; bottom left on mount circled: #40; bottom center: #730 CD-AG-115 GDC-892; bottom right: 28

Wikidata ID

Q64073529

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