Man at piano, woman with violin

Steinberg, Saul (1914-1999)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1966

Height:

48.4 cm  (19 1/16 in.)

Width:

31.9 cm  (12 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

black pen and ink and graphite, lithographic printed and ink drawn

Description

Drawn on printed music staff paper, this interior scene presents a woman playing a violin and a man playing piano; musical notation in caption bubbles represents the music they are creating together; a composer is represented in a portrait on the wall and a bust on the piano; a painting on the wall beside the piano may suggest that the music being played is a nocturne. Signed and dated at lower right.

Iconclass

48C7333
pianoforte
48C7311
violin, fiddle
48C75
making music; musician with instrument
48C753
more than on musician with instrument
48C74
notation of music
41A222
drawing room, 'salon'

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (with bow)
Upright pianoforte [2311]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

6115