Georgian Writers' Union officials, tableaux actresses, audience front rows, Portrait of Titsian Tabidze onstage Tbilisi Music House December 10, 1985 dedication of Museum memorial to Poet friend of Pasternak killed by Stalin 1937. Bella Akhmadulina urged me to attend.
1985
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: 16 × 23.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom, below image in black ink: Georgian Writers' Union officials, tableaux actresses, audience front rows, portrait of Trestan Tabidze [sic] / onstage Tibilisi Music House [sic] December 10, 1985 dedication of Museum memorial to Poet / friend of Pasternak killed by Stalin 1937. Bela Achmadullina [sic] urged me to attend. -- / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #509/16.677; top center: [Tibl ist?] / PARAjANOF; top right: 12/10/85 / Ney #1; upper center, crossed out with line: Bk 7 #23; lower center, reversed, circled in black pencil: 110; bottom left corner, circled: 85; bottom center, along edge: GD-AG-164; bottom right, along edge: GDC-S11