Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) – photo: Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg – Roy Lichtenstein – Illustration for “Passage du Nord-Ouest (Portrait of Allen Ginsberg)”, Les Edition du Solstice, Paris, 1992
It’s the anniversary today of the birth of the American painter, Roy Lichtenstein. The two of them, Allen and Lichtenstein, collaborated on a limited edition, La Nouvelle Chute de l’Amerique (The New Fall of America), ten initialed etchings and aquatints, one printed in black, nine printed in color ( published in Paris, by Édition du Solstice, 1992)
Here’s a CBS profile, posthumous from 2011
Roy Lichtenstein died the same year, a few months later than Allen
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation remains the central location
The donation of his voluminous archives to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2018 (including notes on the Ginsberg collaboration) is detailed – here