A Letter from Picasso

Date:	1974
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	c. 13 3/4 x 15 1/2
Size cm:	35 x 39
Signature:	Signed on the reverse
Location:	Unknown

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Reference

Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, c. 1662-64. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Vermeer, The Love Letter, c. 1670-72. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Picasso, The Race, 1922.

There are two pictures on the background wall in Vermeer's painting The Love Letter. The upper picture is partly obscured by a hanging drapery. George Deem replaced that picture with Picasso's 1922 painting The Race.

In 1978 George Deem changed his original title for this painting from "Cornelisen Vermeer" to "A Letter from Picasso." Ann Cornelisen's photographs of details of George Deem paintings that were reproduced in the catalogue of the1974 Indianapolis Museum exhibition Paintings by George Deem were a prominent feature of that catalogue.

Photo-lithographic print from the painting: 22 X 30 inches (paper) 19 X 21 1/4 inches (image), Siena Press, New York 1980. Edition 300. 3 colors.

Sneed Gallery, Rockford, Illinois

Exhibition date:	1980
Works Shown:	A Letter from Picasso Miracle New School of Athens, The Picasso's Mirror

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition date:	December 8, 1974 - January 19, 1975
Institution:	Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Works Shown:	A Letter from Picasso An American Vermeer Blue Vermeer Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Deem Vermeer (Self-Portrait) George Washington in White Face George Washington Vermeer Green Vermeer Ingres Vermeer La Tour Vermeer Martha Milk Primary Vermeer Quartet (1973) Rita Vermeer Sienna Vermeer Three Women (Vermeer)