Painting by Marc Chagall
Le Grand Cirque (1956) Artist Marc Chagall Year 1956 (1956 ) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 159.5 cm × 308.5 cm (62.8 in × 121.5 in) Owner private collection
Le Grand Cirque is an oil and gouache on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1956. it is held in a private collection.
The canvas features acrobats, trapeze artists and clowns.[ 1] The subject of circus was dear to the artist.[ 2] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks.[ 3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.[ 4] Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Pablo Picasso , Georges Rouault , Kees van Dongen , and Fernand Léger .[ 4]
At least until 1974 Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York.[ 5] In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s , New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland.[ 6] In 2017, the painting was sold for $16 million, to an Asian telephone bidder.[ 1]
Bern, Kunsthalle , Marc Chagall, Oeuvres de 1950 à 1956, 1956, no. 46
Basel, Kunsthalle , Oeuvres des 25 dernières années, 1956, no. 61
Paris, Galerie Maeght , Marc Chagall, 1957, no. 5
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum , L'oeuvre des dernières années, 1956-57, no. 147
Hamburg, Kunstverein im Hamburg; Munich, Haus der Kunst & Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Marc Chagall, 1959, no. 166, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs , Exposition Marc Chagall, 1959, no. 174
South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1965
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Hommage à Marc Chagall, 1967, no. 46, illustrated in the catalogue
Zürich, Kunsthaus (on loan)
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum , Chagall in Israel, 2002-03[ 5]
^ a b Pogrebin, Robin; Reyburn, Scott (2017-11-15). "Chagall's Romantic Love Story Leads Sotheby's Impressionist Sale (Published 2017)" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-02-20 .
^ GUIVARCH-TONNARD, Aourell (2016-06-23). "Chagall, de la poésie à la peinture, exposé à Landerneau" . Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-20 .
^ Venturi, Lionello (1994). Chagall . Genève: A. Skira. p. 39. ISBN 2-605-00267-5 . OCLC 233992792 .
^ a b Chagall : a retrospecitve . Marc Chagall, Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. [New York]: Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc. 1995. pp. 196– 198. ISBN 0-88363-495-3 . OCLC 33471293 .{{cite book }}
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^ a b "Marc Chagall, LE GRAND CIRQUE" . Sotheby's . Retrieved 2021-02-20 .
^ "Will This Rare Marc Chagall Painting Break a 27-Year-Old Auction Record?" . Artnet News . 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2021-02-20 .
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