Georgian Writers' Union officials, tableaux actresses, audience front rows, Portrait of Titsian Tabidze onstage Tbilisi Music House December 10, 1985 dedication of Museum memorial to Poet friend of Pasternak killed by Stalin 1937. Bella Akhmadulina urged me to attend.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This is a photograph of a stage setting. The stage is decorated with ornate moldings and luxurious drapes. In the center, a group of individuals is seen, with one person reading from a paper. Several stringed instruments are placed on the right side of the stage. A large portrait photo is displayed in the background. The audience is visible in the foreground, and handwritten annotations are present at the bottom of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 16 × 23.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.163.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, across bottom, below image in black ink: Georgian Writers' Union officials, tableaux actresses, audience front rows, portrait of Trestan Tabidze [sic] / onstage Tibilisi Music House [sic] December 10, 1985 dedication of Museum memorial to Poet / friend of Pasternak killed by Stalin 1937. Bela Achmadullina [sic] urged me to attend. -- / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #509/16.677; top center: [Tibl ist?] / PARAjANOF; top right: 12/10/85 / Ney #1; upper center, crossed out with line: Bk 7 #23; lower center, reversed, circled in black pencil: 110; bottom left corner, circled: 85; bottom center, along edge: GD-AG-164; bottom right, along edge: GDC-S11

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