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

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows two men in a medium shot, depicting their upper bodies. The man on the left is standing slightly leaning against the other man, facing forward. He has receding light-colored hair combed back, and a clean-shaven face with a subtle smile. He is wearing a dark pinstripe suit jacket over a light collared shirt and a diagonally-striped tie. The man on the right stands slightly angled towards the left, wearing glasses and has a beard and a bald head with dark hair on the sides. He is also wearing a suit jacket over a collared shirt with a striped tie. A few pens are visible in the breast pocket of his jacket. Both men are standing in front of a rough, dark brick wall, which serves as the background. At the bottom, there is handwritten text on the white border space of the photo.
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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 Number

    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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