Gregory Corso looking out his attic-room skylight 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur half block from Seine off Place St. Michel. He had finished first City Lights Gasoline, completed Marriage & Bomb, begun Power Poem, & was "eliminating" Death & Clown motifs (i.e. Probing Concepts), see Happy Birthday of Death volume 1960. Peter O & I lived downstairs 3rd floor, Paris 1957.
1957, printed 1995
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: 35.6 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 in.)
sheet: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2011.146.39
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: Gregory Corso looking out his attic-room skylight 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur half block from Seine off Place St. / Michel. He'd finished first City Lights [underline] Gasoline, completed [underline] Marriage & Bomb, begun [underline] Power Poem, & was "elim- / inating" [underline] Death & Clown motifs (i.e. Probing Concepts), see [underline] Happy Birthday of Death volume 1960. Peter O & I / lived downstairs 3'd floor, Paris 1957. Allen Ginsberg; artist's stamp across center in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Signed 4/28/95 AG; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF 45139H GD-AG-64; bottom right: GDC-954