Gregory Corso 1964 N.Y.C. my apartment East 6th Street? No 704 E. 5th Street says Peter Orlovsky.

1964, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image displays two men sitting on a couch. The man on the right is leaning back, holding a smoking pipe. He has dark, casually styled hair and wears a dark jacket over a lighter-colored shirt. The man on the left sits further back, smiling, with short dark hair and a light-colored jacket. A pillow with a patterned design is nearby. Newspapers or magazines lie in the foreground on a coffee table or floor. The background is a plain wall without decorations.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.6 × 12.8 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gregory Corso 1964 N.Y.C. my apartment East 6th Street? No / 704 E. 5th Street says Peter Orlovsky.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 1964 / #68/1548; bottom center stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR / LOCATION / IMAGE # / SLEEVE # / PRINTED BY / NOTE; bottom right in graphite: GD-AG-207 GDC-572

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