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Young Gardeners is an oil painting by Malle Leis in the Tartu Art Museum.[1]
| Young Gardeners | |
|---|---|
| Estonian: Noored aednikud | |
 (image viewable via museum record) | |
| Artist | Malle Leis |
| Year | 1968 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100.0 cm × 100.3 cm (39.4 in × 39.5 in) |
| Location | Tartu Art Museum, Tartu |
The painting shows a double self-portrait against a background of flowers and could be interpreted to mean two young gardeners lying down in a field of flowers of their own cultivation, as the title suggests. Its geometric forms with pop elements was probably originally intended to be a pendant of a similar work featuring a double portrait of her husband, painted in the same year.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Eesti muuseumide veebivärav - Noored aednikud". muis.ee. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ Malle Leis discussed by Eda Sepp in Estonian Non-conformist art from the Soviet occupation in 1944 to Perestroika, chapter in Art of the Baltics: The Struggle for Freedom of Artistic Expression under the Soviets, 1945–1991, edited by Jane Voorhees, Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge, exhibition catalog Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001/2002, ISBN 978-0813530420
- Young Gardeners in Europeana website
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