Gregory Corso Paris 1957 his attic 9 Rue-Gît-Le-Coeur with magic wand, Louvre postcards tacked to wall left, wooden angel kid on wire right, window on courtyard. Burroughs came to live a flight below, Peter Orlovsky & I had window on street two floors down, room with two burner gas stove – LeRoi Jones (Yugen magazine) and Irving Rosenthal (Chicago Review) wrote us from U.S. for poems, Gregory had “Marriage” ready, “Power,” “Army” & “Police” also. I began Kaddish, Peter “Frist Poem,” Burroughs shaping Naked Lunch. Madame Rachou, Concierge.
1957, 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: 22.5 × 22.5 cm (8 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.5 cm (13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.58
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; across bottom: Gregory Corso Paris 1957 his attic 9 Rue-Gît-Le-Coeur with magic wand, / Louvre postcards tacked to wall left, wooden angel kid on wire right, window on / courtyard. Burroughs came to live a flight below, Peter Orlovsky & I had window / on street two floors down, room with two burner gas stove – Leroi Jones (Yugen / magazine) and Irving Rosenthal (Chicago Review) wrote us from U.S. for poems, / Gregory had “Marriage” ready, “Power,” “Army” & “Police” also. I began Kaddish [underlined], / Peter “Frist Poem,” Burroughs shaping Naked Lunch [underlined]. Madame Rachou, Concierge; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right inverted in graphite: T29; upper center: page 30; center: [illegible writing]; lower right circled and perpendicular: MS; lower right perpendicular: #42/715 / BK5#27 [crossed out] / 1957; bottom left circled: #28; bottom center: GD-AG-087; bottom right: GDC-613