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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
This is probably the most dynamic compositions and the most representative of Chagall's pictorial vocabulary within the present collection of Chagall drawings. One of Chagall's numerous swooning figures, carrying a bunch of flowers, flies above a small town possibly intended to represent Vitebsk. On the left is the artist, recognisable through his easel and paintbrush, who looks down at the town. He seems to waver between the human realm trapped in the semi-circle and the timeless world in the sky where the 'donor' is.
The present drawing is related to the etching L'offrande, chosen as the frontispiece of Lionello Venturi's book on Marc Chagall published by Galerie Pierre Matisse in 1945.
This is probably the most dynamic compositions and the most representative of Chagall's pictorial vocabulary within the present collection of Chagall drawings. One of Chagall's numerous swooning figures, carrying a bunch of flowers, flies above a small town possibly intended to represent Vitebsk. On the left is the artist, recognisable through his easel and paintbrush, who looks down at the town. He seems to waver between the human realm trapped in the semi-circle and the timeless world in the sky where the 'donor' is.
The present drawing is related to the etching L'offrande, chosen as the frontispiece of Lionello Venturi's book on Marc Chagall published by Galerie Pierre Matisse in 1945.