Le Clown au Cirque
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Artist | Marc Chagall |
Year | 1980 (1980) |
Medium | tempera and pen and ink on board |
Dimensions | 46 cm × 54.6 cm (18 in × 21.5 in) |
Owner | Private collection |
Le Clown au Cirque is a tempera and pen and ink on board painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1980. It is held in a private collection.
Description
The painting depicts floating clowns amid the circus ring in the middle of the performance.[1] The subject of circus was dear to the artist.[2] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks.[3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.[4]
Among other contemporary painters who featured the circus in their works are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Rouault, Van Dongen and Léger.[4]
Provenance
- Chalk & Vermilion Fine Art, Greenwich
- Coast Galleries, Carmel
- Private Collection, Ohio (acquired in 2000)
- Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
- Private Collection (acquired in 2015)
See also
References
- ^ "Chagall, Marc Le clown au cirque". www.sothebys.com. 2015. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ GUIVARCH-TONNARD, Aourell (2016-06-23). "Chagall, de la poésie à la peinture, exposé à Landerneau". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ 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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- 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
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