Odalisque, my bedroom on East 12th Street March 22, 1985, New York, young boy friend naked took this picture after I'd taken his in similar repose.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.6 × 32.7 cm (8 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.184.38

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: Odalesque [sic], my bedroom on East 12th Street March 22, 1985, New York, young boy friend naked took / this picture after I'd taken his in similar repose.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 3/22/85 / Bk5 #2env1 / Neg #5A; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-330; bottom right in graphite: GDC-831

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