Fine-bearded Ilya Kutik & his wife, center, at home with his circle of friends, philologists, translators, poets & philosophy teachers, Moscow December 16, 1985. Dostoevsky-eyed youth in striped sweater had gone absent without leave for the evening from the Army to meet me and ask after Neal Cassady, Kerouac's hero On the Road., 1985

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.5 × 33.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2016.184.17

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Fine-bearded Ilja Koutiek [sic] & his wife, center, at home with his circle of friends, philologists, translators, / poets & philosophy teachers, Moscow December 16, 1985. Dostoyevski [sic]- eyed youth in striped sweater / had gone absent without leave for the evening from the Army to meet me and ask after Neal Cassady, / Kerouac's hero _On the Road_.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 12/17/85 / Book 7 #28 / Neg 27A; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-315; bottom right in graphite: GDC-642

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.