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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. 13
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 2010.151
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:
The print presents Chekhov’s main character—a landscape painter—painting outdoors. The scene marks a change of the protagonist’s mood: He experiences a complete lack of inspiration for most of the summer, but the desire to paint arises after a lazy summer holiday.

Scholars believe that Chekhov based the protagonist on his close friend Isaak Levitan, one of Russia’s most celebrated landscape painters, who worked “en plein air” (i.e., outdoors) and exhibited with the Wanderers.
BJ 2013

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