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| Work
Still Life from Both Sides
| Date: | 1971
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | c. 19 3/4 x 23 1/2 |
| Size cm: | 50 x 60
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| Signature: | Signature uncertain
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| Location: | Private Collection Franklin, Masachusetts |
| Image Notes
Painted in Cortona, December 1971.
Reference: Terborch, Gallant Conversation (also known as Paternal Admonition) c. 1654, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
| Artist's Notes
December, 1971.
Owner: Jane Yockel / February 1976
(In) a painting I did in 1971 called Still Life From Both Sides ... I took a detail of Terborch's A Company In An Interior ... and pasted it to a piece of cardboard, then treated it as a still-life object, a two-dimensional still-life object, which I placed on an actual table, covered with an actual striped fabric, alongside an actual geranium in a pot. I draped an actual blue ribbon over the cardboard to make it plain it is a two-dimensional flat object. I then painted this still life setup against an actual interior, in the house here (in Cortona). I divided the composition in half so as to show the same still life setup from the reverse side. And ... shifting concentration to the trompe-l'oeil effects of the painted (twice-painted) gown, the geranium leaves (my "own" actual geranium), etc. As you see, this sets up a nice play between the "actual" and the "illusion" -- and in the context of the traditional painting categories; figure painting, still life, interior. The best way to look at Still Life From Both Sides is alternately to close eyes, first left then right, etc. Then you see the pot slip back and the cardboard-mounted reproduction turns around. (George Deem, letter to Udo Kultermann, May 2, 1977)
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