John Giorno, Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer through Giorno Poetry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teachers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987., 1987, printed 1991

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: John Giorno, Tibetan N'yingma [sic] Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of / H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet / & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, / R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited / when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer thru [sic] Giorno Po- / etry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at / Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teach- / ers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: #914/29,667; lower center in graphite: Signed 7/29/91 / 12/20/87; lower right in graphite: Neg; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-288; bottom right in graphite: GDC-707

Provenance

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

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