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| Work
After Vermeer
| Date: | 1971
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| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Size inches: | c. 7 7/8 x 6 7/8 |
| Size cm: | 20 x 15
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| Signature: | Unsigned on face. Inscribed on the reverse. |
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| Location: | Private Collection, Evanston, Illinois (2002) |
| Image Notes
Reference
Vermeer, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665.
| Artist's Notes
Artist's title: After Vermeer. Painted December, 1971.
My painting is going very well. I have just completed a 6" x 8" composition of that Vermeer painting "Girl with a turban." The composition is showing the Vermeer girl at the right hand top, at the lower left the same girl is reversed, you see her back and 3/4 profile because she is looking at the original. It's like self-buttons (self covered buttons), but I don't have the nerve to call it self-buttons. So far it's called self-composition. (George Deem, letter to Jean Rigg, December 21, 1971).
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