Fine-bearded Ilya Kutik & his wife, center, at home with his circle of friends, philologists, translators, poets & philosophy teachers, Moscow December 16, 1985. Dostoevsky-eyed youth in striped sweater had gone absent without leave for the evening from the Army to meet me and ask after Neal Cassady, Kerouac's hero On the Road.
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: 22.5 × 33.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.184.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Fine-bearded Ilja Koutiek [sic] & his wife, center, at home with his circle of friends, philologists, translators, / poets & philosophy teachers, Moscow December 16, 1985. Dostoyevski [sic]- eyed youth in striped sweater / had gone absent without leave for the evening from the Army to meet me and ask after Neal Cassady, / Kerouac's hero On the Road.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 12/17/85 / Book 7 #28 / Neg 27A; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-315; bottom right in graphite: GDC-642