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The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Le peintre en rouge is a lyrical celebration of love and life brimming with the mystery and life-enhancing wonder that suffuses Chagall’s works. The act of painting opens up a whole world of images: as the painter portrays another artist at work at an easel, a woman suddenly appears next to him, perhaps symbolizing an angelic muse, guiding and protecting the artist in his creative flow.
The pair are romantic characters within the swirling drama of the composition. An intriguing assortment of strange and dream-like elements float through the picture, ranging from the artist at his easel to a floating vase bursting with flowers, and various other figures and animals typical of Chagall, as though a cast of characters and nostalgic facets from Chagall’s past has burst into life on its surface. In the work, Chagall is represented not only as the central figure at his easel, but perhaps also as the painter in blue depicted in the picture itself, a poignant play on memory and self-reflection.
Chagall executed Le peintre en rouge in 1984-1985, at a time of considerable self-reflection. By that time, the artist had achieved worldwide success, and was being celebrated as one of the most important painters of the 20th century through a series of momentous exhibitions. In 1984, the Musée national d’art moderne in Paris organized an important retrospective of Chagall’s works on paper, while the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence arranged a major retrospective of his paintings. In 1985, the Royal Academy in London also honored the painter with a major exhibition, which then travelled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reaffirming the artist’s stature beyond Europe.
"With age, I see more clearly and justly what is true and what is false along our way and just how ridiculous everything is which one has not obtained with one’s blood, with one’s very soul, everything that has not been pierced by love... herein lies true art" (Chagall quoted in F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Paris, 1995, p. 282).
Le peintre en rouge is a lyrical celebration of love and life brimming with the mystery and life-enhancing wonder that suffuses Chagall’s works. The act of painting opens up a whole world of images: as the painter portrays another artist at work at an easel, a woman suddenly appears next to him, perhaps symbolizing an angelic muse, guiding and protecting the artist in his creative flow.
The pair are romantic characters within the swirling drama of the composition. An intriguing assortment of strange and dream-like elements float through the picture, ranging from the artist at his easel to a floating vase bursting with flowers, and various other figures and animals typical of Chagall, as though a cast of characters and nostalgic facets from Chagall’s past has burst into life on its surface. In the work, Chagall is represented not only as the central figure at his easel, but perhaps also as the painter in blue depicted in the picture itself, a poignant play on memory and self-reflection.
Chagall executed Le peintre en rouge in 1984-1985, at a time of considerable self-reflection. By that time, the artist had achieved worldwide success, and was being celebrated as one of the most important painters of the 20th century through a series of momentous exhibitions. In 1984, the Musée national d’art moderne in Paris organized an important retrospective of Chagall’s works on paper, while the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence arranged a major retrospective of his paintings. In 1985, the Royal Academy in London also honored the painter with a major exhibition, which then travelled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reaffirming the artist’s stature beyond Europe.
"With age, I see more clearly and justly what is true and what is false along our way and just how ridiculous everything is which one has not obtained with one’s blood, with one’s very soul, everything that has not been pierced by love... herein lies true art" (Chagall quoted in F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Paris, 1995, p. 282).