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Marc Chagall: The Circus, p. 2
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Paris / Paris2 / The Village / The Circus / Circus 2 / Lovers / Lovers 2 / Music / Music 2 / Flowers / Flowers 2 / Self Portraits / Self Portraits 2
Dead Souls (1923-27) / Dead Souls 2 / Dead Souls 3 / Dead Souls 4 / Maternité (1925-26) / Fables of La Fontaine (1927-30) / Fables 2
De Mauvais Sujets (1958) / Et sur la terre (1977)
Chagall and the Bible
Etchings for the Bible (1930-39, 1952-56) / Bible Etchings 2 / Bible Etchings 3
1956 Verve Lithographs for the Bible / 1956 Bible Lithographs 2
1960 Verve Lithographs for Drawings for the Bible / 1960 Bible Lithographs 2 / 1960 Bible Lithographs 3
The Story of the Exodus (1966) / Exodus 2 / The Jerusalem Windows (1962) / Other Biblical Subjects
Signed Chagall Etchings and Lithographs
Original Posters
Review, 12/10/03 Rhythm Section (an entertainment guide jointly produced by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times)
Marc Chagall on The Circus
For me, a circus is a magical spectacle, a passing and dissolving like a little world. There is a disquieting circus, a circus of hidden depths. These clowns, riders, acrobats are imprinted on my sight. Why? Why am I moved by their make-up and their grimaces? With them I travel on toward other horizons. Their colors and their painted masks draw me toward other, strange, psychic forms which I long to paint.
Circus! A magical word, a centuries old entertainment parading before us, in which a tear, a smile, a gesture of arm or leg takes on the quality of great art.
And what do circus people receive in return? A crust of bread. Night brings them solitude and sadness stretching on to the following day until evening, amid a blaze of electric light, heralds a renewal of the old life. For me, the circus is the most tragic of all dramatic performances.
Throughout the centuries, its voice has been the most shrill heard in the quest for the amusement and joy of man. Often it takes on a high poetic form. I seem to see a Don Quixote tilting at windmills, like the inspired clown who has known tears and dreams of human love.
My circus pitches its Big Top in the sky.
It performs among the clouds, among the chairs,
Or in the moon-reflecting windows.
In the streets a man goes by.
He puts out the lights and lamps of the town.
The show is over.
Marc Chagall, Circus (1967)
Apparition at the circus (M. 392). Original color lithograph, 1963. 40 signed & numbered + c. 2000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographe II. Illustrated in the 1988 Moscow Chagall Exhibition. Image size: 320x240mm. Price: $1,075
Clown with flowers (M. 399). Original color lithograph, 1963. 40 signed & numbered + c. 2000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographe II. Illustrated in the 1988 Moscow Chagall Exhibition. Image size: 320x240mm. Price: $1,075
The White Clown (M. 411). Original color lithograph, 1964. 75 signed & numbered impressions plus c. 2000 unsigned impressions published in the deluxe art review Derrière le Miroir. Image size: 380x280mm. Price: $775
The sun and the red horse (M. 945). Original color lithograph, 1979. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 20,000 unsigned impressions for a special number of the deluxe art review Derrière le Miroir dedicated to Chagall, of which this is one. One of Chagall's most cheerful depictions of the joys the universe takes in lovers. Image size: 300x410mm. Price: SOLD.
Acrobat on a green background (M. 946). Original color lithograph, 1979. 20,000 impressions signed in the stone. Illustrated in Chagall's Works in Series. Ours is a pencil-signed impression taken from the deluxe art review, Derriere le Miroir. 310x220mm. Image size: 278x211mm. Price: $2,575.
Also available without the pencil signature: $675.
