Dedication of museum to Poet Titsian Tabidze shot in Stalin purges 1937—evening at theater on main street, Tbilisi, Georgia (Tiflis), state dignitaries & writer’s union officials reading proclamations of rehabilitation, harps & medieval ladies on stage, portrait of the flower-lapelled Poet in place of honor—I visited Tbilisi at Bella Achmadulina’s suggestion, Picking visa renewal to stay in Moscow, late November 1985., 1985

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.4 × 33 cm (8 13/16 × 13 in.)

sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2018.196.30

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: Dedication of museum to Poet Tristen [sic] Tabidze shot in Stalin purges 1937—evening at theater on main street, / Tibilizi [sic], Georgia (Tiflis), state dignitaries & writer’s union officials reading proclamations of rehabilitation, harps / & medieval ladies on stage, portrait of the flower-lapel’d [sic] Poet in place of honor—I visited Tibilisi [sic] at Bela [sic] Achma- / dulina’s suggestion, Picking visa renewal to stay in Moscow, late November 1985.; lower left of mat printed in black ink on applied label: GDC0943; on verso of mat, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-35; bottom right: GDC-943

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.