Painting by Marc Chagall
Le Grand Cirque (1956) English:The Big Circus 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 artistMarc Chagall created in 1956. it is held in a private collection.
The canvas features acrobats, trapeze artists and clowns.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Post-Impressionist andModern painters who featured the circus in their works areGeorges Seurat ,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ,Pablo Picasso ,Georges Rouault ,Kees van Dongen , andFernand Léger .[ 4]
At least until 1974Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York.[ 5] Sotheby's , New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland.[ 6] [ 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 . Retrieved2021-02-20 . ^ GUIVARCH-TONNARD, Aourell (2016-06-23)."Chagall, de la poésie à la peinture, exposé à Landerneau" .Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved2021-02-20 . ^ Venturi, Lionello (1994).Chagall . Genève: A. Skira. p. 39.ISBN 2-605-00267-5 OCLC 233992792 . ^a b Chagall : a retrospective . 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 }}: CS1 maint: others (link )^a b "Marc Chagall, LE GRAND CIRQUE" .Sotheby's . Retrieved2021-02-20 .^ "Will This Rare Marc Chagall Painting Break a 27-Year-Old Auction Record?" .Artnet News . 2017-10-04. Retrieved2021-02-20 .
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