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Lot 261 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Maisons
Closed7 February 2013
Price Realised
GBP 17,500
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This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.
During his first trip to Paris (1910-1914), Chagall was so enthusiastic that he found sufficient to draw a few buildings, seen from his window. The Salon d'Automne of 1911 gave the opportunity to the Russian artist to view the most recent French painting, and meet the artists of the avant-garde through his friend, Robert Delaunay.
Here Chagall seems to have absorbed aspects of his friend Robert Delaunay's paintings, sharing an attraction to windows and window views linked to the Symbolists' use of glass panes as metaphors for the transition from internal to external states. The window was a recurring motif in many of Chagall's paintings, as it defined the separation between the inside and the 'other' world, one of the artist's main concerns.
During his first trip to Paris (1910-1914), Chagall was so enthusiastic that he found sufficient to draw a few buildings, seen from his window. The Salon d'Automne of 1911 gave the opportunity to the Russian artist to view the most recent French painting, and meet the artists of the avant-garde through his friend, Robert Delaunay.
Here Chagall seems to have absorbed aspects of his friend Robert Delaunay's paintings, sharing an attraction to windows and window views linked to the Symbolists' use of glass panes as metaphors for the transition from internal to external states. The window was a recurring motif in many of Chagall's paintings, as it defined the separation between the inside and the 'other' world, one of the artist's main concerns.