Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Costume design for Aleko: Two Fish and a Veteran (Scene IV)
Image View:
Overall view, front and back of the fish costume, and a wounded veteran for Scene IV
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian artist, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (New York, New York, United States) 137.1945.42
Location Note:
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS:
45.4987-73.5801
Date:
1942 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
cartoon (working drawing)
Work Type 2:
watercolor (painting)
Work Type 3:
drawing (visual work)
Classification:
Fashion, Costume and Jewelry
Material:
gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
Technique:
aquarelle (technique); drawing (image-making)
Measurements:
30.8 cm (height) x 26.7 cm (width)
Subjects:
animal; apparel; decorative arts; military or war; music; Performing arts; folkloric; dreamlike; surreal; fish; ballet; dance; costumes; preparatory drawing
Description:
Created for the 1942 Ballet Theatre of New York (now the American Ballet Theatre) production (premiere Mexico City). Chagall accompanied the Ballet Theatre troupe to Mexico, where, outside the jurisdiction of American stage-painters' unions, he was able to help execute his designs. He also personally decorated many of the more than seventy costumes for Aleko, some of which were sewn by his wife, Bella. Chagall was given the chance to draw upon his memories of Russia through the production of Aleko, a ballet based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin and set to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A Minor. This was his first work for the ballet. (Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) [website]; http://www.lacma.org )
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-ALTF-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Costume design for Aleko: Two Fish and a Veteran (Scene IV)