Marc Chagall Les Adolescents (The Adolescents), 1975 is perhaps one of Chagall's finest lithographs. Vibrantly colored and expertly composed, this piece, aptly entitled, The Adolescents captures the bliss and of young love. Gazing at each other with absolute adoration, a young couple embraces in the center of the composition. Both figures are dressed in vibrant garbs, the woman in red and the man in teal. They appear as if standing in a field of tall shrubbery, in a remote area with no cityscape in sight. Chagall creates a circular motion, surrounding the couple with an array of joyous figures. A translucent blue figure dives down from the top while a mother holds her child to the lower right. In the upper right corner, the moon and sun overlap in a whimsical eclipse as a rooster and horse look on from the left.

Created in 1975, this color lithograph is hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin and numbered from the edition of 50 in pencil in the lower left margin.

Provenance:
1. Merill Chase Galleries, Chicago.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Marc Chagall The Adolescents (Les Adolescents), 1975 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).

1. Sorlier, Charles. Chagall Lithographs V: 1974-1979. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1984. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 741 on pg. 53.
2. Marc Chagall: The Lithographs, La Collection Sorlier. Gauss, U. (Ed.). Distributed Art Publishers: NY. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no.741 on pg. 324.
3. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this work.

About the Framing:
Marc Chagall The Adolescents (Les Adolescents), 1975 is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, presented in a complimentary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.