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
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.4 × 33 cm (8 13/16 × 13 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.196.30
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
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