Dmitri Prigoff and Bella Akhmadulina in her husband Boris Mesuref's studio, Vorovsky Street Moscow -- I found their apartment, she introduced me to Prigoff as outstanding avant-guard experimental Poet- late November 1985. Two years later I read Prigoff's English Translations for him at an art gallery in Manhattan.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.3 × 20.4 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.6 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.163.43

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Dmitri Prigoff and Bella Akhmadulina in her husband Boris Mes- / uref's studio, Vorovsky Street Moscow -- I found their apartment, she / introduced me to Prigoff as outstanding avant-guard experimental Poet- / late November 1985. Two years later I read Prigoff's english Translations / for him at an art gallery in Manhattan.

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