Mayakovsky Cloud in Pants
| Date: | 1979
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| Medium: | Oil on paper mounted on second sheet |
| Size inches: | 17 x 14 1/4 on paper 17 3/4 x 15 |
| Size cm: | 43.2 x 36.2 on paper 40 x 38.1
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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. Accession Number 2013.54.74
"A Cloud in Trousers" 1915 poem in four parts by Mayakovsky.
"--------from A Cloud in Trousers If you like --I'll be furious flesh elemental, or -- changing to tones that the sunset arouses --if you like --I'll be extraordinarily gentle,not a man, but -- a cloud in trousers!" transl. Herbert Marshall
