Chagall, Marc, Clown with a Yellow Goat, 1982

1982

Preparatory study for lithograph M.995. Lithographic ink and graphite drawing on transfer paper, mounted on paper.

65.3 (d) / 65 (g) X 50 cm

Stamp of the Marc Chagall estate on the back.

Unique work

Catalog raisonné: Sorlier 995.

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.