Les Fleurs rouges

Marc Chagall

1973

Original color lithograph on Arches paper

76 x 55.5 cm

Annotated in pencil lower left "H.C.", signed by the artist in pencil lower right

Mourlot print, Paris

Catalog 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.