Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre

细节
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Fleurs rouges à la fenêtre
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
oil, gouache and pencil on canvas
16 3/8 x 10¾ in. (41.5 x 27.3 cm.)
Painted in 1935-1936
来源
Acquired in the 1950s; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1995, lot 328.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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拍品专文

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.