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Marc ChagallThe Circus Le Cirque - French Russian Circus Teriade1967
1967
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This complete suite of 38 original lithographs in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" on the colophon page.
It is stamp numbered from the edition of 250 in Arabic numerals on the justification page.
It is one of 250 complete suites printed by Fernand Mourlot and published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris. There were also 20 sets numbered with Roman numerals reserved for the collaborators.
The papers bear the Arches watermarks, and it is presented with the original wove paper wrappers, cloth-covered boards and slipcase.
Provenance: Private collection, Japan
Literature: Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1974). Chagall: The Lithographs IV (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 490-527
Note: Marc Chagall’s deep connection to the circus and its performers stems from his childhood in pre-revolutionary Vitebsk, Russia. During local village fairs, acrobats, clowns, and equestrians would arrive to entertain, yet their lack of recognition often left a somber impression on Chagall. This experience instilled in him a lingering fear that he too might face a similar lack of appreciation as an artist. Despite this, Chagall eventually channeled his fascination with the circus into one of his most celebrated lithographic series, Le Cirque.
In 1927, Ambroise Vollard, a leading art dealer and publisher of early 20th-century French art, invited Chagall to create a series of gouaches themed around the circus. Vollard, who himself was a circus enthusiast, even offered Chagall the use of his personal box at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris. Sidney Alexander, Chagall’s biographer, noted that Chagall was “childishly delighted” by this opportunity. However, after Vollard’s tragic death in 1939, Chagall set the project aside. It was not until Tériade, a close friend and prominent art publisher who had also worked with artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, encouraged him to revisit it that Chagall resumed work. Tériade’s support reignited Chagall’s passion, and he chose to switch from gouaches to lithography, a technique he had perfected over the previous two decades.
In 1962, Chagall began creating a series of lithographs that captured the vibrant and exhilarating world of the circus. His lithographs featured dreamlike scenes with trapeze artists, dancers, and clowns performing gravity-defying acts amid an adoring audience. The lithographic technique allowed Chagall to integrate his characteristic loose brushwork, rich colors, and layering effects into printmaking. The spontaneity of his hand brilliantly expressed the performers' dazzling movements. The full portfolio, consisting of 38 lithographs—23 in color—was published in 1967 with text by Chagall himself, and it is widely regarded as one of his most remarkable illustrated works.
Condition: Very good condition. Each sheet is generally in very good condition, with very pale time-staining at the extreme sheet edges. A small number of pages have additional handling creases in the corners, most notably plate on the colour plates three, eight and nine. Two colour plates (five and seven) have foxing along the edges of the sheet, visible only verso and not showing recto. Three colour plates have the central vertical fold as issued. A small number of the text pages have minor soft handling creases. There are pencil annotations pertaining to the order of the folio, verso. Overall, the colours remain vibrant. The folio case shows signs of wear and with scattered foxing.
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Creation Year:1967
- Dimensions:Height: 17.76 in (45.1 cm)Width: 13.63 in (34.6 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 250Price: $199,800
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18015338212
Marc Chagall
Described by art critic Robert Hughes as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century," the Russian-French modernist Marc Chagall worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, he developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.
Born Moishe Segal in 1887, in Belarus (then part of the Russian empire), Chagall is often celebrated for his figurative paintings, but he also produced stained-glass windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, in France; for the United Nations, in New York; and for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as book illustrations, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine-art prints. Characterized by a bold color palette and whimsical imagery, his works are often narrative, depicting small-village scenes and quotidian moments of peasant life, as in his late painting The Flight into Egypt from 1980.
Before World War I, Chagall traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. When the conflict broke out, he returned to Soviet-occupied Belarus, where he founded the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He fled to the United States during World War II but in 1947 returned to France, where he spent the rest of his life. His peripatetic career left its mark on his style, which was distinctly international, incorporating elements from each of the cultures he experienced.
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