Gregory Corso looking out his attic-room skylight 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur half block from Seine off Place St. Michel. He had finished first City Lights Gasoline, completed Marriage & Bomb, begun Power Poem, & was "eliminating" Death & Clown motifs (i.e. Probing Concepts), see Happy Birthday of Death volume 1960. Peter O & I lived downstairs 3rd floor, Paris 1957.

1957, printed 1995

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image is in black and white and depicts a man from the chest up, seated and facing right. He is holding a string of beads near his mouth with both hands. The man's facial features, including his nose, lips, and eyes, are visible in profile. His hair is thick and slightly disheveled. He is wearing a textured sweater over a light-colored shirt. The background shows a room corner with two framed pictures on the wall and an angled ceiling, indicating an attic space.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.6 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.146.39

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Gregory Corso looking out his attic-room skylight 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur half block from Seine off Place St. / Michel. He'd finished first City Lights [underline] Gasoline, completed [underline] Marriage & Bomb, begun [underline] Power Poem, & was "elim- / inating" [underline] Death & Clown motifs (i.e. Probing Concepts), see [underline] Happy Birthday of Death volume 1960. Peter O & I / lived downstairs 3'd floor, Paris 1957. Allen Ginsberg; artist's stamp across center in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Signed 4/28/95 AG; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF 45139H GD-AG-64; bottom right: GDC-954

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