The Green Acrobat - SOLD

The Green Acrobatis a color lithograph realized by the Franco-Russian artist Marc Chagallin 1979.

Signed on plate. Published by the Galerie Maeght (Paris) for Derriere le Mirroir, 1979. 

Ref.: WV Mourlot 946.

This joyful scene represents an acrobat doing his performance on top of an animal. The prominent color is green, but more colored geometric formes and human figures are scttered around the space to enrich the composition's texture.

"It's a magic world, the circus’, Chagall once wrote, ‘an age-old game that is danced, and in which tears and smiles, the play of arms and legs take the form of great art […]. The circus is the performance that seems to me the most tragic. Throughout the centuries, it has been man’s most piercing cry in his search for entertainment and joy.  It often takes the form of lofty poetry. I seem to see a Don Quixote in search of an ideal, like that marvellous clown who wept and dreamed of human love" (M. Chagall, Le Cirque, New York, 1981).
Since his childhood, when he had seen acrobats in the streets of the Russian town of Vitebsk, Chagall has always been fascinated by the circus, and often returned to this subject in his artworks. He often depicted trapeze artists, musicians, tumblers, gymnasts, clowns, enhancing their liveliness but also their tragic and human side.

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