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Maker(s):Vassiliev, Oleg Vladimirovich
Culture:Soviet (1931-2013), active in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the United States
Title:The House with the Mezzanine, No. 30
Date Made:1991
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph on cream paper
Measurements:Sheet: 29 3/4 x 21 in.; 75.6 x 53.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.168
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
This print is a negative rendering of image No. 1 in the series. Once more, the scene summarizes the misery that Vassiliev experienced in his contemporary Soviet culture. It features the artist's self-portrait in front of a completely dilapidated nineteenth-century Moscow manor. The house saw better times, which realist landscape painter Vasili Polenov captured in his painting Grandmother's Garden (1878). In prints No. 1 and No. 30, Vassiliev references both the building itself, in its lost and present conditions, and Polenov's painting, to represent Russia's pre-revolutionary culture as well as that culture's abolishment during the Soviet era.

BJ, 2013

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