Michael Portman, ill-starred English aristocrat, then staying next door room to William Burroughs at Villa Muniria studying Alpha rhythms, stroboscope “Dream-Machine” illusions and letters with Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Dorian Gray youth, he died in mid-age, alcohol and other dissipations, Tangier 1961., 1961, printed 1985

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 29.5 × 19.5 cm (11 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

sheet: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.61

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Michael Portman, ill-starred English aristocrat, then staying next / door room to William Burroughs at Villa Muneria studying Alpha / rhythms, strobiscope “Dream-Machine” illusions and letters with / Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Dorian Gray youth, he died in mid- / age, alcohol and other dissippations, Tanger 1961. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, signed by artist: center right perpendicular in graphite: Signed 4/24/90 AG.; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: page 22; center right perpendicular: 1961/51/905 / SK printed 12/10/85; lower left circled: #19; lower center: GD-AG-396; lower right: GDC-628

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.