Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Gendarmes russes

細節
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Gendarmes russes
signed and dated 'Chagall 1908' (lower left)
pen and India ink and pencil on paper
7 1/8 x 7 in. (18.2 x 17.9 cm.)
Executed in 1908
來源
David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (no. D 807).
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1987.
出版
J. Lassaigne, Marc Chagall, Dessins inédits, Geneva, 1968, (ill. p. 16).
V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989, p. 32 (ill. p. 33).
展覽
Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988; this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, Dec. 1990 - Mar. 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, Oct.- Nov. 1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - Aug. 1996.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall, "Himmel und Erde", Dec. 1996 - Feb. 1997.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967, Dec. 1997 - Jan. 1998.
Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall, Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998.
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, Feb.- May 2000, p. 35 (ill.).
Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, Jan.- Mar. 2002.
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.

These characters, carefully and simply outlined, highlight the political as well as autobiographical dimension in Chagall's work. The motif of the policeman or soldier often appears in Chagall's oeuvre, as exemplified by the soldier paintings of 1914, (M 210-216). By depicting these figures of authority, Chagall denounces the discrimination of Jews at the beginning of the century in Russia, a discrimination he had experienced first hand in St Petersburg in 1906, where he had needed a special permit to stay in the city, to work and study, because he was Jewish. In the present drawing he depicts the exclusion of the old Jew and the little girl, who are almost being kicked out of the drawing itself whilst the central soldier turns his back to them.

On a further autobiographical note, Chagall seems to refer, in the central character, to a policeman, who was his neighbour in Vitebsk, when he would visit from St. Petersburg and rent a room. This policeman lived in a small white house with red shutters and always wore a red and white beret in the summer.