Francesco Clemente taking a break from painting my portrait in oil, his first from life model, here working on background of imaginary Afric head, his studio Broadway & Great Jones Street. We'd done several illuminated books together (notably White Shroud 1984) & he'd published my Blake discourse "Your Reason & Blake's System" in his Palm-sized Hanuman Editions. Manhattan December 14, 1989.

1989, printed 1995

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.9 × 33.3 cm (12 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 50.5 × 40.5 cm (19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.184.40

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: Francesco Clemente taking a break from painting my portrait in oil, his first from / life model, here working on background of imaginary Afric head, his studio Broadway / & Great Jones Street. We'd done several illuminated books together (notably White Shroud / 1984) & he'd published my Blake discourse "Your Reason & Blake's System" in his / Palm-sized Hanuman Editions. Manhattan December 14, 1989.; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: SIGNED / 8/12/95; lower right in graphite: 12/14/89 / #1253 / NEG. #15; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-110; bottom right in graphite: GDC-870

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