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Allen Ginsberg

Newark/New Jersey 1926 – 1997 New York

Neal Cassady and Susan Metzner. 1964

Later gelatin silver print. 18,4 x 25,5 cm (27,8 x 35,3 cm) (7 ¼ x 10 in. (11 x 13 ⅞ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Allen Ginsberg. Neal Cassady and Susan Metzner. 1964.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 5,700

 

- 8,550

Sold for:

4,880 EUR (incl. premium)

auctions 182-186

Photography, Thursday, 26.05.2011

Information

Later gelatin silver print. 18,4 x 25,5 cm (27,8 x 35,3 cm) (7 ¼ x 10 in. (11 x 13 ⅞ in.)). Signed, dated and detailed annotation in black felt tip pen in the lower white sheet margin. Dated and numbered in pencil by various hands on the reverse.

Annotation in black felt tip pen: „Neal Cassady and I went upstairs to Attic at Millbrook Castalia Foundation League for Spiritual Discovery, Leary's group then experimenting with half-hour trip of D.M.T. Here's Neal resting eyes closed with Mrs. Metzner who was in charge of the vial of liquid psychedelic Di-Methyl-Tryptamine. We'd driven upstate New York from the city, Neal at wheel, in Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster's bus newly arrived in the Apple on crosscountry hegira during Presidential, Fall 1964.".

Beat Memories, The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, ed. by Sarah Greenough, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2010, p. 69

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