Chagall, Marc, The Red Flowers, 1973
1973
Original lithograph in color on Japon paper
76 x 55.5 cm
Annotated “H.C. Epreuve de collaborateur” lower left, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Tirage Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné : Sorlier 705
This composition precedes Bouquet bleu of 1974, and already gives a central place to the still life: Marc Chagall places the oversized bouquet at the center of the composition. This time, he accompanies it with a basket of fruit in the foreground, while the two lovers play an almost secondary role. This subject has been taken up many times by the artist in the form of variants: sometimes several bouquets are represented, sometimes the lovers are absent.
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.
