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William Seward Burroughs, 1953

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Photograph
50.5×40.4 cm

Artists

  • Allen Ginsberg
Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Object data

Artist/author
  • Allen Ginsberg
Title
William Seward Burroughs
Date
1953
Art movement
Art after 1945
Category
Photograph
Material​/technique
Photograph
Dimensions
50.5×40.4 cm
Signature
Signed dated and designated lower center: William S. Burroughs next to kitchen table next to typewriter, getting in condition to edit his last three years' South American "Gage Letters" and "Queer" manuscripts to be published decades thence. Immortality comes later. We slept in rear, stripe-wallpaper'd tiny bedroom, wardroe visible behind left shoulder, 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953. Allan Ginsberg
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna - Donation Helmut Klewan
Inventory access
Accession 2021
Selection of Reference works
  • Der Blick aus dem Rahmen. Literarische Porträts aus der Sammlung Klewan, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger/ Stefan Kutzenberger, Köln 2022 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien 06.05.2022-29.08.2022).
Keywords
man/boyportraitsemi-nudeportrait of a writerwriter/authorsitting figureunderware: lower part of the body

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man/boyportraitsemi-nudeportrait of a writerwriter/authorsitting figureunderware: lower part of the body

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