Dmitri Prigoff and Bella Akhmadulina in her husband Boris Mesuref's studio, Vorovsky Street Moscow -- I found their apartment, she introduced me to Prigoff as outstanding avant-guard experimental Poet- late November 1985. Two years later I read Prigoff's English Translations for him at an art gallery in Manhattan.
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: 30.3 × 20.4 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 27.6 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.43
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Dmitri Prigoff and Bella Akhmadulina in her husband Boris Mes- / uref's studio, Vorovsky Street Moscow -- I found their apartment, she / introduced me to Prigoff as outstanding avant-guard experimental Poet- / late November 1985. Two years later I read Prigoff's english Translations / for him at an art gallery in Manhattan.