Vera Sudeikina (later Stravinsky), “Duties of the Artist’s Wife”:
1. Making the artist work at least with a stick.
2. Love his work no less than the artist himself.
3. To each impulse of work to go forward, ignite his new ideas.
4. Keep in the order of work, drawings, sketches, cartoons. Know every job, its purpose, value.
5. Treat new jobs as unexpected gifts.
6. Be able to watch the picture for hours.
7. Be a physically ideal, and therefore be his eternal model.
... The artist's spouse, then the composer's spouse, she herself was an artist: the works labeled “Vera Stravinsky (1888 - 1982)” can now be found in auction catalogs.
Detailed story - in the publication of Arthiva