Chagall, Marc, L’Écuyère au Cheval rouge, 1957
1957
Original lithograph in color on Arches paper
46 x 36 cm
Annotated in pencil lower left "épreuve de collaborateur", signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Tirage Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné : Sorlier 191
This circus scene depicts a horsewoman performing acrobatics, standing on the back of her horse, probably during a performance. This original lithograph shows the close ties between modern artists and the world of show business, which began to develop through the figure of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and post-impressionist artists. In addition to Chagall, the colorful and joyful world of the circus attracted other artists in the 1950s, such as Fernand Léger and Bernard Buffet.
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.
