William Burroughs ready to leave "the Bunker" for supper, he was visiting New York staying in his former Bowery loft, maybe back from Europe where he was awarded rosette Chevalier des Arts, visible below the round American Institute of Arts & Letters pin on his lapel, very distinguished gentleman, March 26, 1985, just beginning his late additional career as a painter., 1985

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: William Burroughs ready to leave "the Bunker" for supper, he was visiting / New York staying in his former Bowery loft, maybe back from Europe where / he was awarded rosette Chevalier des Arts, visible below the round American Institute / of Arts & Letters pin on his lapel, very distinguished gentleman, March 26, 1985, / just beginning his late additional career as a painter.; across bottom of mat printed in black ink on applied paper: William Burroughs prêt à sortir du “Bunker” pour diner, il était de passage à New York et habitait son ancien loft dans le Bowery, peut-être rentrant d’Europe où il avait été / décoré de la rosette de Chevalier des Arts visible en-dessous de l’insigne rond de l’American Institute of Arts and Letters sur son revers, monsieur très distingué, 26 mars / 1985, commenҫant juste sa tardive et nouvelle carrière comme peintre.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-23; bottom left of mat in graphite circled: #35; bottom center of mat in graphite: Image #12039 GD-AG-23; bottom right of mat in graphite: GDC-599; bottom right of mat in graphite: 58

Provenance

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

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