Chagall, Marc, The Donkey in the Village, 1984
1978
Preparatory study in black for lithograph M.1045. Drawing in gouache, pastel, Indian ink and brush etching turned over on transfer paper.
31.9 x 24 cm,
Stamp of the Marc Chagall estate on the back.
Unique work
Catalog raisonné: Sorlier 1045.
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.
