Scene de Cirque
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Artist | Marc Chagall |
Year | 1970 (1970) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 72.7 cm × 91.7 cm (28.6 in × 36.1 in) |
Owner | Private collection |
Scène De Cirque (circa 1970) is an oil on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall.
Description
The canvas features acrobats, trapeze artists and clowns. The subject of circus was dear to the artist.[1] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks.[2] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.[3] Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, and Fernand Léger.[3]
Provenance
The painting has been estate of the artist till 1998 when it was sold to private collector. In 2017 it was acquired by a private American collector at Sotheby's.[4]
Exhibitions
- Reykjavik, National Gallery of Iceland, The Reykjavik Arts Festival, 1998
See also
References
- ^ GUIVARCH-TONNARD, Aourell (2016-06-23). "Chagall, de la poésie à la peinture, exposé à Landerneau". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ Venturi, Lionello (1994). Chagall. Genève: A. Skira. p. 39. ISBN 2-605-00267-5. OCLC 233992792.
- ^ a b Chagall : a retrospecitve. Marc Chagall, Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. [New York]: Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc. 1995. pp. 196–198. ISBN 0-88363-495-3. OCLC 33471293.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Chagall, Marc, Scène de Cirque". www.sothebys.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
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- List of works
- I and the Village (1911)
- Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (1913)
- The Poet Reclining (1915)
- Bella with White Collar (1917)
- Green Violinist (1923–24)
- White Crucifixion (1938)
- The Yellow Crucifixion (1943)
- Bouquet with Flying Lovers (1930s–1944)
- Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio (1945)
- Nocturne (1947)
- La Mariée (1950)
- Le Grand Cirque (1956)
- Bouquet près de la fenêtre (1959–60)
- Le Grand Cirque (1968)
- Scene de Cirque (circa 1970)
- Le Clown au Cirque (1980)
- The Painter and His Fiancée (1980)
- Soleil dans le ciel de Saint-Paul (1983)
- Four Seasons (1974)
- All Saints Church, Tudeley (1967–1977)
- Bella Rosenfeld (wife)
- Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art (defunct)
- Chagall (1963 documentary)
- Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977 documentary)
- 2981 Chagall