Robert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in Desolation Angels, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist., 1955, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 15.6 x 23.9 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 20.2 x 25.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2009.103.9

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Robert La Vigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in _Desolation Angels_, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on South Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.; on verso, by unknown hand, in lower left corner in graphite: 41 [inscribed in a circle]; across lower left: x; lower center stamped in ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: YEAR__ LOCATION__ IMAGE #__ SLEEVE #__ PRINTED BY__ NOTE__; in graphite: GD-AG-230; across lower right corner in graphite: #32 / 478 1955 BK5#21 [lightly crossed out] Neg # 21 GDC-497; across upper left center: 67 [inscribed in a circle]

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

Exhibition History

2010: Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 58.