[Igor Stravinsky] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Igor Stravinsky], [1925] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/30/30109369b460-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Igor Stravinsky] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Igor Stravinsky]
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This drawing reduces the composer to a few confident strokes of brush and ink, with white highlights laid over a faint pencil underdrawing, a technique typical of Miguel Covarrubias's caricatures. Covarrubias, a Mexican artist who drew for *Vanity Fair* in the 1920s, specialized in exaggerating the distinctive features of writers, performers and musicians. This sheet was later reproduced in a 1985 Smithsonian Institution Press book on his caricatures, under the heading "Prodigious figures in the world of music." Stravinsky, born in Russia in 1882, had caused a sensation with *The Rite of Spring* in Paris in 1913, and by 1925 he was one of the most talked-about composers in Europe, making him a natural subject for a caricaturist.
| Created / published | [1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink brush over graphite underdrawing with opaque white ; 36.9 x 26.7 cm. (sheet). |
| Notes | Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures / by Beverly J. Cox and Denna Jones Anderson. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. (DLC/PP-1976:R2.9) Published in: Prodigious figures in the world of music |
| Subjects | Stravinsky, Igor,--1882-1971. Composers--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157793 |
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