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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
The purity of line characterising this portrait anticipates Chagall's drawings executed during his second visit to Paris in the 1920s, even though this portrait was made during his first trip to the French capital (1910-1913).
In less than a year, Chagall had established his reputation in the artistic milieu of Montparnasse and was soon nicknamed 'the poet'. He was introduced to many artists, poets and critics, such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Ricciotto Canudo, André Salmon, Max Jacob and Blaise Cendrars. These critics were influential in establishing Chagall's reputation as an artist; Apollinaire reported on the Salon des Indépendants of 1914, where several works by Chagall were exhibited, that 'Chagall is a gifted colourist who yields to every suggestion of his mystic, heathen fantasy: his art is very sensual' (M p. 146).
The purity of line characterising this portrait anticipates Chagall's drawings executed during his second visit to Paris in the 1920s, even though this portrait was made during his first trip to the French capital (1910-1913).
In less than a year, Chagall had established his reputation in the artistic milieu of Montparnasse and was soon nicknamed 'the poet'. He was introduced to many artists, poets and critics, such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Ricciotto Canudo, André Salmon, Max Jacob and Blaise Cendrars. These critics were influential in establishing Chagall's reputation as an artist; Apollinaire reported on the Salon des Indépendants of 1914, where several works by Chagall were exhibited, that 'Chagall is a gifted colourist who yields to every suggestion of his mystic, heathen fantasy: his art is very sensual' (M p. 146).