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拍品專文
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from the Comité Marc Chagall.
Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet is a richly-coloured scene that plunges the viewer into the magical world of Marc Chagall. Indeed, the apparitions that fill the window and that emerge into the woman's world appear to be the embodiments of whatever she is reading, implying that this picture is a form of metaphor of the act of interpretation itself, a celebration of the power of the imagination. The figure of the horse that is impossibly making its way across the sky and the head which seems to be whispering to the reading woman, both rendered in the same blue as the background, therefore bleed into the landscape that fills the window, melding with it and thereby allowing the artist to confuse deliberately the boundaries between so-called 'reality' and the imagination. The houses, trees and figures within the frame of that window may be mirage-like figments or parts of the reader's world, adding an enchanting ambiguity to the entire scene. Chagall therefore shows how his picture, like literature, is able to conjure up enchanting visions and thereby to reveal the beauty of the world.
In Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet, the window by which the woman is reading is filled with the rich blue of the sky, recalling the South of France where Chagall spent so many years in its depth and luminosity. That blue also serves to heighten the impact of the glorious colours of the bouquet of flowers that so dominates this picture. The miniature explosions of these blooms add an effervescence to Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet that reveals why Picasso would come to admit, in begrudging admiration, that 'there's never been anyone since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has' (Picasso, quoted in Chagall: A Retrospective, ed. J. Baal-Teshuva, Westport, 1995, p. 270).
Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet is a richly-coloured scene that plunges the viewer into the magical world of Marc Chagall. Indeed, the apparitions that fill the window and that emerge into the woman's world appear to be the embodiments of whatever she is reading, implying that this picture is a form of metaphor of the act of interpretation itself, a celebration of the power of the imagination. The figure of the horse that is impossibly making its way across the sky and the head which seems to be whispering to the reading woman, both rendered in the same blue as the background, therefore bleed into the landscape that fills the window, melding with it and thereby allowing the artist to confuse deliberately the boundaries between so-called 'reality' and the imagination. The houses, trees and figures within the frame of that window may be mirage-like figments or parts of the reader's world, adding an enchanting ambiguity to the entire scene. Chagall therefore shows how his picture, like literature, is able to conjure up enchanting visions and thereby to reveal the beauty of the world.
In Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet, the window by which the woman is reading is filled with the rich blue of the sky, recalling the South of France where Chagall spent so many years in its depth and luminosity. That blue also serves to heighten the impact of the glorious colours of the bouquet of flowers that so dominates this picture. The miniature explosions of these blooms add an effervescence to Femme lisant près de la fenêtre et bouquet that reveals why Picasso would come to admit, in begrudging admiration, that 'there's never been anyone since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has' (Picasso, quoted in Chagall: A Retrospective, ed. J. Baal-Teshuva, Westport, 1995, p. 270).