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拍品专文
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
With its vivid colors and whimsical, poetic scene of a mermaid holding a vibrant bouquet of flowers floating high above the Côte d'Azur, Sirène au pin is the quintessential Chagall painting. Mermaids were a recurring theme in his work, where the viewer is immersed into a mysterious, oneiric universe, one that is filled with Chagall's sense of romantic possibility, hope and optimism.
Mermaids first appeared in Chagall's oeuvre as early as 1945, at the end of his American exile. Sirène au pin was painted in 1960, while Chagall was living in his villa Les Collines on the Côte d'Azur. Situated on the slope of the Baou des Blancs, near the road between Saint-Paul-de-Vence and nearby Saint-Jeannet, this beloved home was surrounded by peach orchards and olive groves, a veritable Arcadia in which Chagall found a new vital charge for his art. This period appeared to have informed the artist's deliberate exploration of the contrast between the vivid blue that suffuses so much of the surface and the incandescent bursts of yellow, red, pink and green in the flowers, resulting in the intense vibrancy of this picture. Chagall's world of romance is one that is tinted as much by his colorism as it is by his sense of fantasy and imagination.
The present gouache is a preparatory design for a poster commissioned by the French Tourist Office in 1962 to promote Nice and the Côte d'Azur.
With its vivid colors and whimsical, poetic scene of a mermaid holding a vibrant bouquet of flowers floating high above the Côte d'Azur, Sirène au pin is the quintessential Chagall painting. Mermaids were a recurring theme in his work, where the viewer is immersed into a mysterious, oneiric universe, one that is filled with Chagall's sense of romantic possibility, hope and optimism.
Mermaids first appeared in Chagall's oeuvre as early as 1945, at the end of his American exile. Sirène au pin was painted in 1960, while Chagall was living in his villa Les Collines on the Côte d'Azur. Situated on the slope of the Baou des Blancs, near the road between Saint-Paul-de-Vence and nearby Saint-Jeannet, this beloved home was surrounded by peach orchards and olive groves, a veritable Arcadia in which Chagall found a new vital charge for his art. This period appeared to have informed the artist's deliberate exploration of the contrast between the vivid blue that suffuses so much of the surface and the incandescent bursts of yellow, red, pink and green in the flowers, resulting in the intense vibrancy of this picture. Chagall's world of romance is one that is tinted as much by his colorism as it is by his sense of fantasy and imagination.
The present gouache is a preparatory design for a poster commissioned by the French Tourist Office in 1962 to promote Nice and the Côte d'Azur.