color lithograph, high-grain lithographic paper; 44 x 30 cm (composition), 70 x 50 cm (sheet);
signed on plate in composition under composition in pencil " Chagall" and numbered in pencil "135/300".
Chagall's compositions are simple in form but rich in content with deep, saturated colors. Chagall's compositions are painted stories based on the artist's multi-layered poetics. The work in question is also such. Here we find his beloved wife, Bella Rosenfeld, as the most important figure in the painting, his love for Bella depicted in the form of embracing a naked woman with his eyes fixed on her face, the birth of his daughter, Ida, and the music inherent in Hebrew culture accompanying all important events: holidays, weddings, births and funerals. Here there are three figures with instruments, including such important ones as the cello and flute. The artist used not only Jewish symbolism, but also Christian symbolism. Here he depicted a shepherd with sheep. Marc Chagall loved the circus, claiming that circus artists helped him gain new horizons in understanding the world. Visits to circus performances were one of the artist's favorite activities from his early years in Paris. Here, a circus performer on horseback in the upper right corner of the composition. In the foreground, next to his beloved wife, thereis also a very characteristic image of an animal loyal to man, looking at the figure of a musician horse - the artist's favorite animal.
Marc Chagall - painter, graphic artist born in Vitebsk, of Jewish origin. One of the leading representatives of internationalism in painting. He combined fantasy with realism, East with West, Jewish folklore with the Parisian avant-garde and the past with the present. "I brought my subjects from Russia, and Paris bathed them with its light," he says. He found his own aesthetic that did not conform to fashions. He became a member of the Parisian bohemia, while remaining an artist in his own right.
