Chagall, Marc, L’Elégie des Alizés II, 1969
1969
Original lithograph in color on Japon nacré impérial
47 x 35.5 cm
Annotated "E.A." lower left, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Maeght éditeur, Paris.
Catalogue raisonné : Sorlier 588
“The artist composed a lithograph specially for this book[L’Élégie des Alizés, poem by L. S. Senghor], in 28x22cm format, which is presented as a frontispiece. This print is neither numbered nor signed in the book.
“Chagall, amused by the search for an exotic composition, engraved four small plates on the same theme. The bird, a sacred ibis, was inspired by a black sculpture. This is the first, and probably the last, time this animal takes its place in Chagall’s bestiary. Chagall lithographe, Edition Sauret.
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.
