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| Work
Green Room, The (Study)
| Date: | 1977
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| Medium: | Oil on paper |
| Size inches: | c. 17 3/4 x 24 |
| Size cm: | 45 x 61
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower right |
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| Location: | Private Collection, West Hartford, Connecticut |
| Image Notes
Study for Modern Vermeer Interior, 1977
Reference
Vermeer, The Art of Painting, c. 1666-67, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
| Artist's Notes
I have a book of photographs of interiors published in Germany in 1906 that has been the source of many drawings and paintings. I feel a recurring attraction to these nostalgic images of early 20th-century rooms. In 1977, the year in which I made this drawing, I had been working intensively with Vermeer imagery for six years. Vermeer is primarily a painter of interiors. In this drawing I removed two figures from the room they inhabit in Vermeer's painting and placed them in an early 20th-century room. The figures are from Vermeer's The Art of Painting: the artist seated on a stool at his easel and the standing artist's model. (George Deem, New York, May 25, 1996).
| Exhibitions
Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, Maryland
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