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

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16 × 23.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2015.163.1

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.