Marc Chagall, Blue Profile, 1967 |
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| Artist: | Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) |
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| Title: | Blue Profile, 1967 |
| Reference: | M. 476 |
| Medium: | Original Color Lithograph on Arches Script watermarked paper |
| Image Size: | 25 in x 18 3/4 in (63.5 cm x 47.6 cm) |
| Sheet Size: | 30 1/4 in x 22 1/2 in (76.8 cm x 57.2 cm) |
| Framed Size: | 44 1/2 in x 37 1/4 in (113 cm x 94.6 cm) |
| Signature: | Hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin. |
| Condition: | This work is in excellent condition, a wonderful impression with bright fresh colors and full margins. |
| ID # | w-3369 |
This bold and bright work captures the viewer's eye with the use of strong contrasting tones separating each half of the work. Utilizing his skill in depicting dreamlike imagery with a vibrant palette, Chagall creates two scenes in one, with a strong vertical separation along the middle of the image.
Depicting a scene of simultaneous joy and bright cheer on one side, contrasting with a somber and introspective side, Chagall expresses two halves of his skill in illustrating a sense of mood and feeling. On the left, deep blues occupy the majority of the page, with a face in profile overlapping another face looking out toward the viewer. Each of these portraits appears peaceful and happy in the solitude they reflect. At the right of the page, an extremely opposite sense occurs with bright joyful colors and a lively interaction of images and characters. A man in the upper right happily plays a tune, with a horse standing to his left. Below them, a bursting bouquet of pinks, reds, oranges and yellows spills over toward an outreaching hand of the same vibrant hues. Chagall's use of dreamlike imagery and emotive colors in this work, expresses his sentiment for the harmonious interaction of man and nature.
Created in 1967, this original color lithograph is printed on Arches Script watermarked paper. This piece is numbered 139/150 in pencil in the lower left margin and hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin. Created for the Chagall exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, this work is from the avant la lettre edition. Printed by Mourlot, Paris, this work was published by Editions Maeght, Paris.
DOCUMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN:
1) Cain, Julien, The Lithographs of Chagall (1962 - 1968), Vol III, 1969, image
listed as cat. no. m 476 on pg 111.
2) Gauss, Ulrike, Marc Chagall, The Lithographs, image listed as cat. no. 476 on
pg 209.
3) Sorlier, Charles, Chagall's posters: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1975, image listed
on pgs 52 and 53.
ABOUT THE FRAMING:
Framed to archival museum grade conservation standards, this piece is framed in a complementary moulding with silk mats and optical grade Plexiglas.
