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| Work
Hands off Mayakovski (Study)
| Date: | 1976
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| Medium: | Oil on paper |
| Size inches: | c. 13 1/2 x 13 3/4 |
| Size cm: | 34 x 35
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| Location: | Private Collection, St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Image Notes
Study for 1977 painting, oil on canvas, with the same title.
Reference
Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658-60. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Aleksandr Rodchenko, photo portrait of Mayakovsky seated on a chair designed by Rodchenko, 1924.
Reproduced: Udo Kultermann, "Vermeer versions modernes." Connaissance des Arts, April 1977.
| Artist's Notes
A drawing I have just completed, oil on paper ... is called "Hands Off Mayakovski." "Hands Off China" is the name of a poem by Mayakovski but in my drawing the word "China" is invisible because it is on the wall behind the head of Vermeer's Maidservant pouring milk. (George Deem, letter to Udo Kultermann, May 19, 1976)
The 1976 oil-on-paper picture Hands Off Mayakovski which was reproduced with your article in Connaissance des Arts (April 1977), is a study for an oil-on-canvas painting, same title. In the study, Mayakovski wears a comic-book-green suit. In the painting, the suit is comic-book purple. ... The oil-on-canvas painting Sebastian in the Kitchen is of course from the drawing you own, which was also reproduced in Connaissance. It is one of a series of three paintings, with Hands Off Mayakovski and Words By Ronald Vance (later retitled Seventeen by the artist). In the current show (at Allan Stone Gallery, New York) these pictures were hung in sequence: Sebastian, Mayakovski, Words By R.V. These three pictures can also be joined as a triptych. (George Deem, letter to Udo Kultermann, November 26, 1977)
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