Fabulous Double Page Lithograph ‘Dance And The Circus’ by Marc Chagall.

Two Rare circa1950’s Double Page Lithographs By Marc Chagall From Derrière Le Miroir

Artwork is as follows

"The Dance" and a mosaic from his "Circus" series.

* The Dance: The artwork on the top left is a lithograph of Chagall's 1950 mural "The Dance," which was originally created for the Watergate Theatre in London. The painting is predominantly yellow and depicts a red figure with a goat's head playing a violin and a green female figure holding a bouquet.


* The Circus: The image on the top right is a mosaic, which is part of Chagall's extensive body of work on the circus theme. Chagall frequently returned to circus imagery throughout his career, using it as a metaphor for the human experience.


The other lithograph is titled La crucifixion mystique (Mystical Crucifixion) by the artist Marc Chagall, created in 1950.


* The painting is a reinterpretation of the crucifixion, with Jesus depicted as a Jewish martyr.


* Chagall, who was Jewish, used Christian imagery to reflect the suffering of the Jewish people during the rise of Nazi anti-Semitism.


Chagall's works often feature dreamlike imagery, including acrobats, clowns, and animals, which he used to create fantastical worlds.


Marc Chagall born 1887 [- 1985]

Russian-born painter, lithographer, etcher and designer. Born in Vitebsk of a deeply religious Jewish family. First artistic instruction under Penn, a local painter, then spent 1907-10 in St Petersburg, where he entered the Imperial School for the Protection of the Fine Arts, and later studied under Bakst. Lived 1910-14 in Paris, where he met Apollinaire, Delaunay, Leger, Modigliani and Lhote. Somewhat influenced by Cubism, but differed from it in his love of fantasy. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, 1914. Returned to Russia the same year and had to remain there because of the war. After the Revolution, appointed Fine Arts Commissar for the province of Vitebsk and directed an art academy; also executed murals for Granovsky’s Jewish Theatre in Moscow. Spent 1922-3 in Berlin, then 1923-40 in Paris, except for visits to Egypt, Palestine, Holland, Spain, Portugal and Italy; in addition to paintings, made illustrations for Gogol’s Dead Souls, La Fontaine’s Fables and the Bible. In the USA as a refugee 1941-7, then returned to France, settling in 1950 at Vence. His later works include a new ceiling painting for the Paris Opéra and, from 1957 a number of commissions for stained glass. Lives in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.


Both are double page : folding sheet which measures approx 54 x 38cm and signed in the print


In good condition

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