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| Work
Modern Vermeer Interior
| Date: | 1977
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | c. 27 1/2 x 31 1/2 |
| Size cm: | 70 x 80
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| Location: | Private Collection, Oxford, United Kingdom |
Private Collection, Oxford, United Kingdom.
| Image Notes
Reference
Vermeer, The Art of Painting, c. 1666-67. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; David, Madame Recamier, 1800.
| Artist's Notes
Modern Vermeer Interior
They are in a photograph -- not intentionally. That is what they do when they get out of their painting. (Unpublished notebook entry, 1976)
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 1976, 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. (Note May 25, 1996 on his drawing The Green Room, a Study for Modern Vermeer Interior, 1977)
Modern Vermeer Interior and Private Collection (retitled Pink Room with Vermeer and Mondrian by the artist )are companion pictures, developed together, and in the current show at Allan Stone (Gallery) they were hung side by side. I did a study for each of these paintings. The studies were also hung side by side, and directly above the oil-on-canvas picture for which each was the study. So four pictures altogether, grouped on the wall 18th and 19th century style. The two studies under glass. (George Deem, letter to Udo Kultermann, November 26, 1977)
| Exhibitions
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
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