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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Large Two-headed Figural Vase
Alternate Title:
Grands personnages vase
Image View:
Detail, base of the vase formed by hand-built legs, kneeling to the left
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 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:
1962 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
vase
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
fired ceramic: white clay; glazes
Technique:
fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); figural; female; women
Description:
Beginning in the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics; during a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. Chagall, unlike most artists, was not content with decorating pieces made by professional potters. He himself molded his clay and created original forms. This work combines portions that are wheel-thrown and hand-built, engraved (sgraffito) with a knife and dry-point, and painted with glazes. It reveals an influence of pre-Hispanic [Pre-Columbian] ceramics, which Chagall saw in the United States and Mexico. This is probably the largest piece Chagall made in ceramics, created in the workshop of Madoura de Vallauris. (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nat ionaux-alpesmaritime s.fr/chagall/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-GPER-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Large Two-headed Figural Vase