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

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 13 × 19.4 cm (5 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2013.145.16

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.