Marc Chagall - The Clown in Love (1963)

Title: M394 – The Clown in Love

 

Year: 1963

 

Medium: Lithograph

 

Edition: from an unknown edition size

 

Printer: Mourlot

 

Reference: Patrick Cramer, Les livres illustres, page 184

 

Signature: unsigned

 

Certificate of Authenticity: from Iris & Schriek Graphic Fine Art Gallery, Amsterdam

 

Frame: Gold coloured custom moulding with mount and u-v protective acrylic

 

Frame Size: tbc

 

This original colour lithograph in mint condition is one of the unsigned impressions from the original limited edition of several thousand, published in 1963 on velin paper and printed at the same time and from the same stones as the signed and numbered versions.

Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal, on 6 July 1887, was a Belarusian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

 

Born in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, modern-day Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, he was of Litvak origin. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern Europe and Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1923.

 

Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.

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