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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise
Alternate Title:
Adam et Eve chassés du paradis
Image View:
Detail, tree in the Garden of Eden
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian painter, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
GPS:
43.709167 7.269536
Date:
1961 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
190.5 cm (height) x 283.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); Old Testament and Apocrypha; Adam and Eve; expulsion from Paradise; Garden of Eden; folkloric; dreamlike
Description:
Chagall stages a paradise overturned by the Fall of Adam and Eve: birds with goat heads fly away, others are upside down, joined by winged fish coming out of the river. The angel in charge of manifesting the divine wrath, at the top in the middle, shows Adam and Eve the path of exile and they move out of the painting on the right, as in all the traditional representations of the scene. They are accompanied by a red rooster, a symbol of vitality and fertility. A mother and child scene at bottom right confirms this optimistic view of the Fall. (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nat ionaux-alpesmaritime s.fr/chagall/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-AEE-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise