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MARC CHAGALL Le Jeu des Acrobates.
Color lithograph, 1963. 305x230 mm; 12x9 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 33/40 in pencil, lower margin.
Chagall (1887-1985) held an avid interest in the circus throughout his career and often represented circus scenes in some of his most important printed and painted works. According to one of his biographers, "For [Chagall], clowns and acrobats always resembled figures in religious paintings . . . The evolution of the circus works . . . reflects a gradual clouding of his worldview, and the circus performers now gave way to the prophet or sage in his work—a figure into whom Chagall poured his anxiety as Europe darkened, and he could no longer rely on the lumiére-liberté of France for inspiration," Wullschlager, Chagall: A Biography, New York, 2008, page 337. Mourlot 401.
