Summary
Le Grand Cirque is an oil and gouache on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1956.
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| Artist | Marc Chagall |
| Year | 1956 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 159.5 cm × 308.5 cm (62.8 in × 121.5 in) |
| Owner | private collection |
Description edit
The canvas features acrobats, trapeze artists and clowns.[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 Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, and Fernand Léger.[4]
Provenance edit
At least until 1974 Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York.[5] In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s, New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland.[6] In 2017, the painting was sold for $16 million, to an Asian telephone bidder.[1]
Exhibitions edit
- Bern, Kunsthalle, Marc Chagall, Oeuvres de 1950 à 1956, 1956, no. 46
- Basel, Kunsthalle, Oeuvres des 25 dernières années, 1956, no. 61
- Paris, Galerie Maeght, Marc Chagall, 1957, no. 5
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, L'oeuvre des dernières années, 1956-57, no. 147
- Hamburg, Kunstverein im Hamburg; Munich, Haus der Kunst & Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Marc Chagall, 1959, no. 166, illustrated in the catalogue
- Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Exposition Marc Chagall, 1959, no. 174
- South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1965
- Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Hommage à Marc Chagall, 1967, no. 46, illustrated in the catalogue
- Zürich, Kunsthaus (on loan)
- Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Chagall in Israel, 2002-03[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Pogrebin, Robin; Reyburn, Scott (2017-11-15). "Chagall's Romantic Love Story Leads Sotheby's Impressionist Sale (Published 2017)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ GUIVARCH-TONNARD, Aourell (2016-06-23). "Chagall, de la poésie à la peinture, exposé à Landerneau". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b "Marc Chagall, LE GRAND CIRQUE". Sotheby's. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Will This Rare Marc Chagall Painting Break a 27-Year-Old Auction Record?". Artnet News. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2021-02-20.