Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Mauve Nude

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Mauve Nude
Alternate Title: 
Nu Mauve
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
Creator: 
Marc Chagall (Belorussian painter, 1887-1985)
Location: 
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note: 
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS: 
+45.4987-73.5801
Date: 
1967 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint and sand on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Subjects: 
allegory; animal; folkloric; dreamlike; goat; harlequin; flowers; village
Description: 
In a private collection. Chagall added sand to the oil paint to give it more texture. Many of his familiar motifs are here; a figure blowing a shofar, a blue goat; a small village at the bottom of the painting and a Harlequin figure.
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-CHAGALL-MNU-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.