Le Clown au Cirque
| Le Clown au Cirque | |
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| Artist | Marc Chagall |
| Year | 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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