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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
Having ended his studies at Roerich's school, Chagall entered the private school of Savel Moisejevitch Saidenberg, an artist of genre scenes from Russian history influenced by Ilja Yefimovitch Repin (1844-1930). Here, Chagall's desire for artistic freedom was in confrontation with the academic predominance of the teaching, even more than in his previous school.
This standing nude, probably realised after a model, proves Chagall's compulsory submission to the academic aims of mimesis. Other works made by Chagall at this time are expectedly naturalistic, further betraying his constrained artistic freedom. Chagall succeeds in giving life and a certain lyricism to the model by using only a few strong lines, enhanced by the hatching for the shading.
Having ended his studies at Roerich's school, Chagall entered the private school of Savel Moisejevitch Saidenberg, an artist of genre scenes from Russian history influenced by Ilja Yefimovitch Repin (1844-1930). Here, Chagall's desire for artistic freedom was in confrontation with the academic predominance of the teaching, even more than in his previous school.
This standing nude, probably realised after a model, proves Chagall's compulsory submission to the academic aims of mimesis. Other works made by Chagall at this time are expectedly naturalistic, further betraying his constrained artistic freedom. Chagall succeeds in giving life and a certain lyricism to the model by using only a few strong lines, enhanced by the hatching for the shading.