George Deem

Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer)

Date:	1977
Medium:	Oil on paper with attached gilt cardboard stripping collage
Size inches:	c. 15 3/4 x 11 3/4
Size cm:	40 x 30
Signature:
Location:	Collection of Patricia Manney and Eric Gruendemann, New York

Reference
Vermeer, Girl With a Pearl Earring, c. 1665. Mauritshuis, The Hague.
Perhaps Picasso, The Yellow Shirt (Dora Maar), 1939.

It's interesting that the mirror comes in when I work with Picasso -- and a collage technique. In Girl Before a Mirror I attached a gilt cardboard stripping to make the frame within the picture, & in Vermeer Painting with Picasso's Mirror (George Deem later retitled this work Picasso's Mirror) I used a blue plexiglass mirror. (George Deem, letter to Udo Kultermann, October 29, 1980)

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:

November 1977

Works Shown:

Bruna Sevini and Whistler's Mother Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Danesbank Vermeer Easel Painting (Vermeer) Easel Painting, Verspronck Flying Vermeer: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Hands Off Mayakovski Home Italian Vermeer (Caravaggio) Magdalen/Mayakovsky Modern Vermeer Interior Mona Lisa Washington Mondrian in Vermeer's Studio Mondrian Vermeer New Vermeer, The Orchestrated Vermeer Pink Room with Vermeer and Mondrian Projection Sales Meeting 1938 Sebastian in the Kitchen Seven Separations Seventeen Vermeer in Florence Vermeer Interior Vermeer Repeat (Two Extra Buttons) Vermeer's Moving Waiting Room Yale

Sneed Gallery, Rockford, Illinois

Exhibition date:	1981
Works Shown:	Artist in His Studio, The (diptych) Bingham Ceiling Caravaggio Saint Matthew, The Easel Painting, Verspronck George Washington and His Portrait Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Lady of Spain (Portrait of Gail Rutherford) Woman in Green with Vermeer's Lacemaker

Green Mountain Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:	December 10, 1977 - January 4, 1978
Works Shown:	Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Waiting Room

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana

Exhibition date:

June 23 - August 5, 1979

Works Shown:

An American Rug Artist in His Studio, The (diptych) Caravaggio Saint Matthew, The Caravaggio Saint Matthew, The (Glazing Chart Color Study) Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Girl with Red Hat Off (Portrait of Essie Borden) Glass Bouquet Guitar and Bottle: Picasso 1919-Deem 1979 Green Vermeer Hollywood Van Gogh MacDowell Colony Rita Vermeer Schoolroom 1979 Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles Woman in Green with Vermeer's Lacemaker

The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

Exhibition date:	September 1979
Works Shown:	Artist in His Studio, The (diptych) Composition in Red and Black (Rubens Vermeer) Girl Before a Mirror (Picasso/Vermeer) Girl with Red Hat Off (Portrait of Essie Borden) Glass Bouquet Guitar and Bottle: Picasso 1919-Deem 1979 Hollywood Van Gogh MacDowell Colony Schoolroom 1979 Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles Woman in Green with Vermeer's Lacemaker