Visiting R.D. Laing at his Hampstead house with Tom Pickard fellow poet, he greeted us jolly and sad, household breaking up, wife divorcing him, having'd been drinking considerably, Tom snapped this photo with my camera, London April 25, 1985.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 13 × 19.4 cm (5 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.145.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Visiting R.D. Laing at his Hampstead house with Tom Pickard / fellow poet, he greeted us jolly and sad, household breaking up / wife divorcing him, having'd been drinking considerably, Tom / snapped this photo with my camera, London April 25, 1985.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-125; bottom right in graphite: GDC-520

Wikidata ID

Q64073662

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