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Lot Essay
The Comité Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
Painted circa 1935-1936, Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre combines two elements that in Chagall's personal lexicon of imagery are inextricably linked with one of the most important and pervading themes of Chagall's art, love. Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre is an arresting and seductive image in which the violinist gently floats through a window and into a room, past the yellow curtains and over a large bouquet of flowers. The theme of flowers had been first explored by Chagall in the early 1920s as a romantic extension to the symbolic vocabulary of the paintings depicting himself with his beloved wife Bella and had quickly become a ubiquitous theme in Chagall's art. Similarly, the violinist, often depicted floating above the scene with his accompanying music, has become shorthand for the idea of love and a manifestation of visual poetry. In his painting, Chagall captures not the surreal world of the subconscious, but instead the hidden music that exists in life and especially in love.
Painted circa 1935-1936, Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre combines two elements that in Chagall's personal lexicon of imagery are inextricably linked with one of the most important and pervading themes of Chagall's art, love. Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre is an arresting and seductive image in which the violinist gently floats through a window and into a room, past the yellow curtains and over a large bouquet of flowers. The theme of flowers had been first explored by Chagall in the early 1920s as a romantic extension to the symbolic vocabulary of the paintings depicting himself with his beloved wife Bella and had quickly become a ubiquitous theme in Chagall's art. Similarly, the violinist, often depicted floating above the scene with his accompanying music, has become shorthand for the idea of love and a manifestation of visual poetry. In his painting, Chagall captures not the surreal world of the subconscious, but instead the hidden music that exists in life and especially in love.