Peter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tangier, 1957. Third man- Paul Lund.

1957, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

Three men are seated at a table in a café. Each man is visible from the waist up, sitting side by side, facing the camera. The man on the left has short dark hair and is wearing glasses. He is dressed in a jacket over a collared shirt and looking directly at the camera. The middle man has short dark hair with a receding hairline and is also wearing a jacket over a shirt, his gaze directed slightly off to the side. The third man on the right has short hair and a small mustache, wearing a light jacket over a button-up shirt, also gazing toward the camera. The table they are seated at is covered with a checkered tablecloth, and there are bottles and glasses atop the table. The background features a wall with a decorative sconce and a window covered by a bamboo shade. Behind the chairs, part of a painted wall with vertical paneling and a chalkboard is visible.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.9 × 26.1 cm (6 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.27

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: Peter Orlovsky Bill Burroughs and the inventor of the "Marl Hole," Dutch Tony's Cafe Medina Tanger [sic], 1957. / Third man- Paul Lund.; on verso, by artist, center in graphite perpendicular: Paul Lund; by unknown hand, top right in graphite: A 3; lower right stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR [by unknown hand in graphite: 1957] / LOCATION [by unknown hand in graphite: TANGIER] / IMAGE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 702] / SLEEVE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 50] / PRINTED BY / NOTE; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: #40/690 (negs rolled) / Bk5 # 25 envl [crossed out] / 1957; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-327; bottom right in graphite: GDC-683

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