Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Sketch for "Spring Time"
Alternate Title:
Esquisse pour "L'Air du temps"
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:
1942 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
watercolor (painting)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
gouache; watercolor; India ink on paper mounted on China paper
Technique:
aquarelle (technique); drawing (image-making)
Measurements:
135.9 cm (height) x 94 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; folkloric; dreamlike; nude in art; rooster; goat
Description:
Part of the exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017); from a private collection. Chagall took French citizenship in 1937, but, with his wife Bella, he was forced to seek asylum in the USA in 1941 after he had been briefly imprisoned under the Vichy government in Marseille. This sketch has many of his common motifs; the cock or rooster, goat and a floating woman with a bouquet of flowers. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-SAT-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Sketch for "Spring Time"