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| Work
Lili Brik and Mayakovsky
| Date: | 1991
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| Medium: | Oil on paper |
| Size inches: | Paper: 20 1/8 x 19 1/4. Image: 15 1/4 x 11 1/2 |
| Size cm: | Paper: 51.1 x 48.9. Image: 38.7 x 29.2
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower right |
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| Location: | New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut |
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.63
| Image Notes
Inscribed in pencil by the artist in the right border:easel 3 cm / chair 6 cm / figure 2 cm / Lili 2 1/2 cm Lilly (sic) Brik &/Mayakovsky / G.D. 1991 / 15 1/4 X 11 1/2
Note artist's spelling: : "Lilly Brik & Mayakousky"
Reference
Lili Brik in large chair, elbow on high table: Photograph of Lili Brik and Mayakovsky in the Brik flat in Vodopanyy Lane, Moscow, 1924. Unidentified photographer.
Aleksandr Rodchenko, Photo portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky seated on a chair designed by Rodchenko, 1924.
Glass pitcher on table: Henri Fantin-Latour, Still Life: Corner of a Table, 1873. The Art Institute of Chicago.
Bentwood rocker: Unknown.
Easel with bare canvas: George Deem's studio. See related works: Studio Visit, 1993; Study for Studio Visit, 1992; Easel Painting, 1993.
Figure against bare canvas: see Mieke Bal, "George Deem and Peter Angelo Simon: Timely Conversation," essay in exhibition catalog George Deem and Peter Angelo Simon: Paintings and Photographs in Conversation, 2001, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana.
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