Record ID:
266051
Accession number:
MA 12422
Published:
1989.
Credit:
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description:
1 drawing.
Notes:
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Nov. 13, 1989.
Inscriptions/Markings:
"My girlfriend over in Central Planning says the thinking is, if everything stays on track, it's definitely Bloomie's and Saks by the mid-nineties!"--in pencil on bottom center verso.
Summary:
One Russian woman, holding shopping bags and wearing fur, speaks to another of the coming capitalist reforms as the Kremlin can be seen in the background.
Medium:
Black compressed charcoal with caption in porous pointed pen on paper.
Dimensions:
355 x 430 mm
Provenance:
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
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