Chagall, Marc, The Blue Bouquet, 1974
1974
Original lithograph in color on Arches paper
76 x 56.8 cm
Annotated in pencil lower left "Epreuve d'artiste", signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Tirage Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné : Sorlier 710
Le Bouquet bleu features a recurrent Chagall composition: a bouquet near a window, accompanied by lovers. The bouquet, placed at the center of the composition, is oversized; it is the main subject of this still life, as is the basket of fruit in the Large Fruit Basket.
About the author
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Of Russian origin, born into a very religious Jewish family with a strong attachment to folklore, Marc Chagall is one of those great figures of twentieth-century art who forged a highly personal body of work. He fashioned a poetic, ethereal space, often highly colored, inhabited by recurring symbolic motifs – the rooster, the donkey, the couple, the moon, bouquets and angels in particular. In 1964, André Malraux commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris.
