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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. 4
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 2010.142
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:
Vassiliev writes his introduction to the print series over a brown-tinted landscape. The scene seems to reference paintings of the so-called Wanderers (Peredvizhniki, in Russian). Founded in 1863, the Wanderers were an association of artists who organized traveling exhibitions and focused on motifs that they considered typically Russian, including landscapes and rural life. In mentioning them, Vassiliev once more refers to Chekhov’s time and anchors the series in pre-revolutionary culture. The two black frames mark the work’s different, yet intertwined, layers: the historical view and the artist’s perspective.
BJ 2013

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