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This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
Chagall's fascination with the circus world is still present in his later works, such as La Danse of 1950 (M p. 504; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; fig. 1), for which the present lot is a preparatory sketch. The spontaneous lines and powerful hatching in this drawing successively translate the expressive colours which define the subject in the painted version. La Danse is based upon compositional axes shooting in various directions, obvious in both the painting and the drawing. For this subject, Chagall combines his favourite characters and motifs into one work: the pair of lovers, the swooning female with a flower bouquet, the cock and goat, the artist working at his easel, and the acrobats or musicians.
(fig. 1) Marc Chagall, La Danse, 1950. Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2007.
Chagall's fascination with the circus world is still present in his later works, such as La Danse of 1950 (M p. 504; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; fig. 1), for which the present lot is a preparatory sketch. The spontaneous lines and powerful hatching in this drawing successively translate the expressive colours which define the subject in the painted version. La Danse is based upon compositional axes shooting in various directions, obvious in both the painting and the drawing. For this subject, Chagall combines his favourite characters and motifs into one work: the pair of lovers, the swooning female with a flower bouquet, the cock and goat, the artist working at his easel, and the acrobats or musicians.
(fig. 1) Marc Chagall, La Danse, 1950. Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2007.