Rene Ricard, outrageous faggot art critic, author God with Revolver poems, visiting my apartment from his across the hall, same building E. 12 Street (his windows opposite my kitchen window here across courtyard). Two years later fire drove him out on the street hallucinating murder basements. July 29, 1986.

1986, printed 1991

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.9 × 28.3 cm (7 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.145.26


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Rene Ricard, outrageous faggot art critic, author God with Revolver poems, / visiting my apartment from his across the hall, same building E. 12 Street (his / windows opposite my kitchen window here across courtyard). Two years later fire drove / him out on the street hallucinating murder basements. July 29, 1986.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #56 VE; top right in graphite circled: #76; lower right in graphite: Signed 6/15/91 A.G. / Image 20,179 / 7/29/86 / Sleeve 6/6; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-308; bottom center in graphite: Neg #21; bottom right in graphite: GDC-620


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