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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. 5
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 2010.143
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:
A silhouette representing Vassiliev appears against the dark background of the house with the mezzanine. While the artist glances at Chekhov's world, he obviously doesn’t belong to it. His figure grows out of the plain paper surrounding the scene. In this way, Vassiliev clearly separates the historical and intellectual environments of the past and the present.

The appearance of the house in this print differs from that of the house in print No. 2. The use of two different models for the house corresponds with Vassiliev’s explanation that he aims not to retell Chekhov’s story but to have a conversation with the story and its author.
BJ 2013

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