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拍品专文
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
One of the most famous motifs in Chagall's pictorial vocabulary, the violinist, recurs in several paintings, whether it be as the central figure, a secondary figure in the background or floating in the sky. The violinist was significant in the Jewish world of White Russia as he played his violin anywhere and in any circumstances, both at weddings and funerals, in taverns and in the streets. For Chagall, the violinist's music could inspire happiness as well as melancholy, and therefore had the power to awaken or touch the inner soul. The young artist himself had learned to play the violin with his neighbour, a blacksmith.
Amongst his most famous violinist compositions are Le Violoniste of 1911-1913 (M p. 198; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) and the Violoniste Vert (M p. 295; Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). Chagall also inserted this emotionally powerful figure in larger compositions such as in his decorations for the Jewish theatre in Moscow of 1920-1921 (now in the Galleria Tret'jacov of Moscow), and the violinist continues to be present up to his later works such as in Le Violoniste Bleu of 1947 (M 773; Collection Mrs. James McLane, Los Angeles).
One of the most famous motifs in Chagall's pictorial vocabulary, the violinist, recurs in several paintings, whether it be as the central figure, a secondary figure in the background or floating in the sky. The violinist was significant in the Jewish world of White Russia as he played his violin anywhere and in any circumstances, both at weddings and funerals, in taverns and in the streets. For Chagall, the violinist's music could inspire happiness as well as melancholy, and therefore had the power to awaken or touch the inner soul. The young artist himself had learned to play the violin with his neighbour, a blacksmith.
Amongst his most famous violinist compositions are Le Violoniste of 1911-1913 (M p. 198; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) and the Violoniste Vert (M p. 295; Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). Chagall also inserted this emotionally powerful figure in larger compositions such as in his decorations for the Jewish theatre in Moscow of 1920-1921 (now in the Galleria Tret'jacov of Moscow), and the violinist continues to be present up to his later works such as in Le Violoniste Bleu of 1947 (M 773; Collection Mrs. James McLane, Los Angeles).