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| Work
L'Ecole de Paris (Study)
| Date: | 1989
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| Medium: | Ink, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper |
| Size inches: | 22 x 30 |
| Size cm: | 55.9 x 76.2
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| Signature: | Signed and dated lower right. Titled lower left. |
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| Location: | Estate of George Deem |
| Image Notes
Works quoted: Delaunay, The Eiffel Tower, 1911; Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein; Braque, Woman at a Piano; Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916; Juan Gris, Guitar on a Table, 1915; Fernand Leger, Reading (La Lecture), 1924.
| Artist's Notes
For a painting of the School of Paris the question arose of what a Cubist schoolroom by Picasso and Braque would look like. And what about Juan Gris? The upper part of the drawing defines the interior space of the room. There I have included Gertrude Stein as seen in Picasso's portrait of her. She is the teacher in this schoolroom. Through the window at the left is Delaunay's Eiffel Tower. To the right are two female figures by Braque, and, at the extreme right, two Matisse figures from his painting The Piano Lesson. Leger's rounded inflated figures are on the lower right, while at the lower left I employ a pattern derived from Juan Gris to depict a flow of school desks across the lower part of the drawing. From this study I developed my 1989 painting L'Ecole de Paris now in a private collection in Stuart, Florida.
(A Note by the artist on his Study for L'Ecole de Paris,New York, July 13, 1996.)
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