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This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
Chagall was fascinated by the figure of Christ. The belief that both Christ and artist have the same power to create is an old tradition, particularly praised during the Early Renaissance. For Chagall, Christ was a Jewish prophet, a Jewish martyr, and the revolutionary who shares man's fate to the bitter end. Chagall compared himself as an artist to the figure of Christ. In his poem entitled To Bella, the Russian artist writes, 'Like Christ I am crucified fastened to my easel with nails' (Meyer, p. 490).
Chagall depicts the subject in an ambiguous way, with the artist's hand floating on the canvas and detached from his body. The immaterial rendering of the scene is striking, allowing Chagall to once again challenge the frontier between the divine and the human in a delicate ink drawing. In L'artiste et le Christ, Chagall is still much inspired by the artists he had discovered during his first Parisian stay. Paul Gauguin had a particularly profound and lasting impact on Chagall, through his depictions of daily life in Brittany and his interest in the Breton people's religious faith and mysticism. For this drawing, In his Autoportrait au Christ Jaune of 1890-1891 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; fig. 1), Gauguin explored an emotional territory similar to that later visited by Chagall, whilst also creating an intimate bond between Christ and the artist.
(fig. 1) Paul Gauguin, Autoportrait au Christ Jaune, 1889-1890. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; RMN, Paris, 2007.
Chagall was fascinated by the figure of Christ. The belief that both Christ and artist have the same power to create is an old tradition, particularly praised during the Early Renaissance. For Chagall, Christ was a Jewish prophet, a Jewish martyr, and the revolutionary who shares man's fate to the bitter end. Chagall compared himself as an artist to the figure of Christ. In his poem entitled To Bella, the Russian artist writes, 'Like Christ I am crucified fastened to my easel with nails' (Meyer, p. 490).
Chagall depicts the subject in an ambiguous way, with the artist's hand floating on the canvas and detached from his body. The immaterial rendering of the scene is striking, allowing Chagall to once again challenge the frontier between the divine and the human in a delicate ink drawing. In L'artiste et le Christ, Chagall is still much inspired by the artists he had discovered during his first Parisian stay. Paul Gauguin had a particularly profound and lasting impact on Chagall, through his depictions of daily life in Brittany and his interest in the Breton people's religious faith and mysticism. For this drawing, In his Autoportrait au Christ Jaune of 1890-1891 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; fig. 1), Gauguin explored an emotional territory similar to that later visited by Chagall, whilst also creating an intimate bond between Christ and the artist.
(fig. 1) Paul Gauguin, Autoportrait au Christ Jaune, 1889-1890. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; RMN, Paris, 2007.