Peter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type The Soft Machine cut-up writings, Gregory Corso sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muniria, my Kodak Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tangier Moroc.
1961, printed 1989
Allen Ginsberg
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 30 × 44 cm (11 13/16 × 17 5/16 in.)
sheet: 40.3 × 50.5 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2012.118.81
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Peter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean / sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type The Soft Machine [underlined] cut-up writings, Gregory Corso / sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, / myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muneria, my Kodak / Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tanger Moroc. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left inverted in graphite: V#1; upper right perpendicular: 10/18/89 / S.K.; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower left perpendicular in graphite; 61/#47/829; lower center: GD-AG-80; lower right: GDC-864